Dior's Still Life
For this project, I drew a still life drawing of a vase and a seashell . In this work, the two objects that were observed to draw and shade the values and contrast of the two objects. This work really does communicate any personal experience this time other than it shows how I have possibly struggled to do things such as shading. The tools that I’ve used were a regular pencil that I used to sketch and outline the shape of the objects. Then I also used the various of shading pencils to create a greater effect for the drawing. Also used an eraser to touch up and fix mistakes. I don’t really have any previous work that relates because I usually would add color to my drawings but this time I didn’t. I wanted to try to shading in a different way this time around. My process wasn’t as long as the other things I drew. I really didn’t experiment with trying to draw and practice with other objects other than the vase and seashell. Each time I drew it again, I noticed that I got better at identifying the things about it. So by the time it got to finishing the final product, I felt more relaxed and comfortable drawing it because I was finally able to resemble that original objects.
There is an artist named T.S. Abe that I found myself to like. Even though their pencil drawings are animated, they still were able to capture the values and lighting for their drawings which I really like ( https://www.tsabe.co.uk/ ). When shading, I learned that it’s important to try and get all the shadows then and there because the lighting for the image can change the next time you draw, which I found frustrating. So with doing this, it helped me learn to focus more on the lighting in order to get the best and less frustration in the long run. At one point, I used a small piece of paper to get a smudging effect on the vase just to make it look better to me. I’m most proud of how much effort I put into shading because I was struggling with that part the most but I finally got it in the end. I honestly wouldn’t change anything because I don’t believe I can do a better job at the shading. Through completing this project, I learned skills and experience when it came to shading objects with just pencils and it helped me realize that it wasn’t as difficult as I thought it was, it was only different. So thanking this ended up being a pretty good project for myself that I enjoyed.
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