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

I would describe my marks to show value as being inspired by those of Giorgio Morandi. I used the cross-hatching method to show the value which Giorgio Morandi did a lot of as well. I was very inspired my Morandi's art and I loved how it looked. Cross-hatching helped me show value because I really liked how it looked when you transition from light to dark.

There are many differences between my pre-instructional work and my final still life but I think the main difference is that in my final I used a lot more value. I See the most improvement in my work in my shapes and my light and dark values. The shapes in my final are much better and I also showed a lot of good shadows and light and dark value.

One necessary skill to create a convincing still-life drawing is to make sure that everything is proportioned correctly. You have to make all the objects the same sizes compared to each there that they are in real life. Another skill is to add a lot of good value to the drawing. You need to make sure that there is a lot of value in the objects so that you can see them. A third skill you must have is to be able to know where to show light. It is hard to be able to know how and where to show light. So you have to really observe your objects and where the light hits them. A final skill is to be able to draw three-dimensional objects really well because you have to do a lot of that when drawing your still life.