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Essential Question: What are the necessary skills to create a convincing still life drawing?
Purpose:
To create a still-life drawing that demonstrates understanding of angles & ellipses in perspective, along with using a chosen and conscious mark-making technique to describe form;
To understand value by creating a good range of values between black & white to help make the objects appear 3D;
To demonstrate quality craftsmanship and good composition skills in a drawing.
Artists Studied: Henry Moore, Giorgio Morandi, Vincent van Gogh, Winslow Homer, John Whalley
Reflection
I decided to try the controlled scribbling method of adding value. I was inspired by Giorgio Morandi because I really enjoy the way he places the objects in relation to one another. His use of positive and negative space aids the viewer in seeing 3D objects in a 2D space and I tried to replicate this by making sure my objects overlapped.
I learned a lot about adding value and there’s a noticeable difference between the first and last drawing. In the first one, the only way I could think of to add value was to smudge the pencil which made it look messy while also not accomplishing my goal. I didn’t understand how to draw accurate shapes and position them in relation to each other, which is a skill I had for my final drawing.
My Pre-Instructional Drawing
I think in order to create a convincing still life drawing you must have a deep understanding of accurate shapes. We studied these when we learned about one and two point perspective as well as how to draw a cylinder. You must also be able to add value to the drawing because without it, the drawing won’t look convincing. A still life drawing with no value is simply a 2D drawing which leaves it feeling empty. To create a drawing that people will want to look at, value is necessary. We learned how to add value by studying artists as well as practicing in our sketchbooks.
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