I create original art with my positioning. I didn't have a representative theme behind being behind the bookshelves, but I hadn't seen it before and I thought it'd look interesting. Presented with google results entailing 26,700,000 results, I couldn't find anything similar. It isn't particularly symbolic but I'm confident in saying that I had neither thought of nor seen something like it before making it.
I developed my art skills in using the tortillian. (I'm likely spelling that wrong, I've only heard it used in spoken dialogue thus far.) This would be my first time using the device. Overall I'm fond of it. The ability to make a uniform shade across an area without resorting to manual scribbling is helpful, thought the inability to sharpen or hone the point in any way limits its effectiveness in smaller, tighter areas. I solve problems with my use of coloring on the books. With the original photograph the backs were bright white because of the flash of the camera that took the picture used as a frame of reference. If I were to make it more realistic you'd see nothing but the silhouette of something vaguely resembling books thanks to there being no nearby light sources, reducing it to a series of black boxes. I decided to take something of a central path. I varied the colors of the papers and covers to give them a kind of independence from each other but kept a buffer shadow between each book. The tiered shadow on the top of the middle book leading into the significantly brighter back is unrealistic and would've seemed jarring were it only described in words, though upon the drawing's completion I'm rather happy I did it. Darkening the back would've made the center book feel out of place, and if I had the rest follow suit the books would be reduced to boring silhouettes. This has been my favorite project as of yet.
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This project was the most difficult thing to do so far. Not so much in drawing, it was pleasant to do but not terribly difficult, instead it was not eating the chocolate through the near week we had it sitting in front of us. Though it was probably the most satisfying Hershey's to finally eat though.
I solved a problem with my basket. The pattern went decently smoothly, with some room for freedom because small errors can be written off due to its inherently flawed nature, but by the end it looked flat, like strips of paper folded over each other. Coping it exactly would be unfeasible, it was based on curves that would require I start over and take twice as long. I opted to shade the weaving immediately beside the weaving going over it, giving it a look like it's going under while the brighter parts appear to pop.
I reflected then and now over my pattern on the sheet and the sack on the far left. I was really uncomfortable making the sack pattern and how it changed direction with every fold. With time I could get it better, though I would still have trouble with including shading with that pattern and making them both look good. The stripes on the sheet caused me no small amount of trouble as well. The folds on the sheet didn't show in a shading change, instead by where the pattern shifted, and at times it was rather jarring to show. The bigger creases were fairly easy as I could draw a definite line as is with the right. Unfortunately with the middle there was no clear distinction, and I was left with a pattern going in all sorts of directions. I developed my art making skills with the gas mask. Making the mask itself was probably the best part of the experience, and helped me learn the most. The light reflection on the canister and the lenses was something I'd never tried before oddly enough. Also the shading on the canister was just two tones at first and accrued more definition as time went on. Inside the lenses was far more difficult. I needed another few shades of grey that I hadn't used before, and I needed the lines seen within them to cut off when necessary and perfectly sync with the opposite lens, I think it worked out for the best by the end, and will use what I've gained in future projects. Here are the sketches of various points around the still life. As pretty much everything of mine is unless required to do otherwise, this was done with a normal wooden pencil, rubber eraser, and ruler albeit sparingly. I opted to do the one in the top right as my final, though I brought it back a bit so I could see all of the gas mask.
I drew this white sheet dangling from the ceiling, doing my best to account for shading and what wrinkles I could see clearly. It wasn't as painful to me as much as I had assumed it would be, and I think I will be able to use some of the wrinkle patterns in future drawn clothing.
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