This is another one of our charcoal projects. It was the first time we did white charcoal on a black background. I liked having to draw the highlights and using the paper for the shades. Using the charcoal created quick and bright highlights on the black background.
The first pictures are of my first two blind contour line drawings. And they were hands. I think the first one was hilarious but strangely attractive. I really like how it turned out. The last three are of modified contour line drawings. Of hands. As I progressed through drawing, I began to see more lines and tried drawing them as I saw them, although my attention was always jumping around so it was hard to focus on one specific area of my hand. The second to last one I really liked, mostly because of how my hand was shaped. These are my different media shadings including pencil, charcoal, and pen. I prefer charcoal and pen because of their ability to get a really dark and uniform shade. I saw that charcoal had a rough and really quick shade. Pen was more uniform and I like when shading with pen, you can scribble or just do the same shape over and over to get a dark shade or just a couple for a light shade seen a little bit in the first cone picture. For this project, we had to draw something unwrapping. I chose to do a Hershey's kiss because I thought, especially the foil, would make for an interesting drawing and it would definitely challenge me. As you can see as I progressed through my drawing, I also progressed with my lights and darks. The first drawing in this series turned out to be very light and didn't have much going on. Through the other pictures, you can see where my darks got a lot darker and lights a little lighter to show the major contrast between the shadows and highlights. Out of all four drawings, I think the third is my favorite. It has an interesting layout and lots of different shadows.
This project was done using both black and white charcoal on a brown background paper. I really enjoyed this project, it taught you a lot about seeing the highlights and dark points in the folds of fabric. Using only black and white allowed you to focus on those points and try and put them down on paper.
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