Kitchen Sitll Life Sketch

This sketch required me to create a still-life drawing that contains texture, value changes, and volume of each item. The goal of this sketch was to view common items in a new way, developing visual thinking skills based on texture, values, and volume. I chose to draw the most familiar kitchen items which were a coffee mug, fork, and spoon. For refreshment of the drawing, I added an eyelash curler. I was confident using graphite to add texture and volume into the drawing. As you can see the texture and volume show well in this drawing; however, the shape of fork seems odd. I need to draw more in order to see the characteristic that each objects has.

Chair Sketch

From a magazine, I found an interesting picture of a chair. The assignment was creating negative space by contrast of black and white. I drew the chair lightly on white bond paper and added a black background with black color pencil; then I darken the shadow in order to emphasis the positive space in drawing. Some parts of the positive space (background of the picture), has various intense due to the lighting in the drawing. This drawing is a good example to show the relationship between positive and negative space.

Sketch on Black Film Paper

I was wandering around my room thinking what should I draw for this assignment, but nothing looked appealing to me. For refreshment, I washed my face in the restroom and all of sudden; I decided to draw the doorknob of the toilet. Weird yet, interesting. Isn’t it? I started to draw the doorknob lightly with graphite on the black film paper, then applied color pencil focusing on texture. The door knob was in silver due to its material but, I added more color to add visual interest in the drawing. Only thing I would change here would be to erase some parts of the door knob, adding the reflection of light. This drawing contains enough detail, yet with more delineation on the doorknob, would make this drawing astonishing!