Final Still Life Drawing

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, Kerry James Marshall, Vincent van Gogh, Winslow Homer, John Whalley

Reflection

For this drawing, I used the method of stippling. I was most influenced by vincent as he did do a little bit of stippling in his drawings. Stippling helped me with my value. It made it easier for me to go from light to dark for me. Vincent used stippling for only a part of his drawings, not the whole drawings. In my piece, I applied more pressure and added more dots to make it darker.

I improved my ellipses, value, angles, and proportions. I think the area I improved the most was my angle-making. In the pre-instructional, my angles were very off and not even close to what they should've been. One of my takeaways from this unit is that good art takes a lot of practice and time. Without all the practice and all the time, my art wouldn't be good and everything would have been very off. Looking at my piece of art, it really improved from the pre-instructional because of all the practice and time.

Pre-Instructional Drawing