Value, Line and Texture Drawing -Sakura

The project choice I choose to do for my Q2 benchmark was Value line and Texture Drawing. I decided to choose this because I wanted to create an image that uses various techniques that would make my drawing realistic. When thinking about doing this project I had many different vision and ideas of what I wanted to do. I had did 2 rough draft of sample drawings I wanted to do. The first idea I had, was for me to do a one point perspective drawing of my name. The second Idea I had was to do a necker cube illusion. The reason why I didn’t go through with those ideas was because I didn’t like how the drawing turned out. I finally then decided, that I wanted to draw a human skull because when I was looking up realistic human skull drawings, I like what I saw and I decided I wanted to make a skull drawing. I think my work communicate to the viewer because of realistic aspect of the drawing. I think I achieved the realist aspect of the skull drawing. My current work relates to my previous work because I have done a value line and texture drawing in the 9 th grade. We had did still life drawings.

I believe my work fits in with contemporary art because of portraiture art work. When I looked at artwork on artsy.com I saw portraiture and when i had clikced on it, I saw that it was portaits and relaistic drawlings  that looked simlair to my darwling. When I finally decided to draw a skull for my benchmark, I had went online to looked up different skull ideas I could draw. When I found the one I thought I could replicate, I went on youtube to see different examples on how to draw a skull. I also watched some drawing videos about shading. When I had got an idea of what I wanted to draw a had started to draw my rough draft  to see how the skull would turn out. After I was done my rough draft I pretty pleased with what I had. However when I was working on my final drawing I realised that something was missing that would make my skull different from the skulls I saw on the internet. I then decided to add bones inside the skull mouth to make it look like a pirate flag symbol.My inspiration came from google because I was looking up different ideas for realistic drawing and I saw a skull which I thought was pretty nice. My work could have an impact on the world by showing people they can and try new things like I did when completing this project. My work could influence people to step out their comfort zone and try new drawing techniques. A certain technique I used in my drawing was the shading. When shading in the skull it gave it more value and realism to it which I think is really cool. I learn how to make different textures with a pencil and how to shade had realism to the drawing.