Line

 This week I focused on drawing the lines of a silver pitcher. I started off with some timed gesture drawings with pencil to warm.

This is a contour line drawings using marker; the one that follows is the same but with carcoal.

Lyrical line drawing using black marker.

Gesture/implied line drawing using india ink.

Implied line drawing using charcoal.

This is the drawing I had the most fun with this week. I used a 2B pencil, cross-contouring, and a white eraser to help with the highlights.

Still life contour

Final still life contour.

Value

For this assignment I drew from geometric shaped still life objects. With each drawing I became more and more comfortable with using the charcoal to add value and better able to complete each drawing without the use of lines.

By the time I did the final drawing I felt really at ease with the charcoal and did not miss my graphite pencil set a bit! After photographing my final composition and looking at it for a long time I decide to adjust the cone and sphere slightly so that the shadow of the cone would show up fully on the cube and rectangle.

Positive, Negative, Plane, and Volume

Some warm up gesture drawings...

Charcoal contour drawing focusing on positive space

Negative space

Contour drawing of still life objects using graphite

Graphite still life objects with values

Conte crayon still life with values