Still Life Studies

Photographs

Purpose:

To demonstrate understanding of accurate perspective of cylinders and cubes;

To use a variety of mark-making strategies to practice and demonstrate the value changes on forms, helping them appear 3D

To practice using a variety of media to draw a still life

Artists Studied: Henry Moore, Vincent van Gogh, Giorgio Morandi

Some things that I think have been working well on is my value, not just putting in random spots, rather than that actually better than last classes I really make that dark to light transition more transparent. I’m working well with my shading not blending into two different drawings and my placement for my shading and objects are coming out really well. I think an example of my best work would be my scribble shading which perfectly reflects everything. My placement has ben better than my previous attempts, not perfect but has been less noticeable on the bad placement.

I think I need to work more on my angle for my drawing as a lot of the time they tend to look out of place and not very parallel to each other and tend to be sloping down. I need to work a bit on proportions too because sometimes it gets to the point where it’s sticking out in the drawing. I need to also work on everything being at the same angle on the page because when one is not at the same angle, it just looks funky. With these things noted, I shall take the time and effort to work on it and improve to the point where I’ll be on par with all my other skills.