Creating shadow using lines and marks.
For this exercise we had to split a sketch book page into four and draw a single object using 4 different materials, for this I chose to use a fine liner pen, biro pen, pencil and graphite. We had to make marks to show the shadows, I decided to do two sections drawing cross hatch and dots for the other two.
In this exercise I found it interesting in using different marks to show the darkness on the object, I did find I liked using fine liner best therefore I furthered this on for the next task. But I like how this work did turn out and it was different to how I usually display my tones during drawing.
In the next task we were told to gather 3 or more objects and not use an outline to display the object when drawing, to just just the marks to indicate the objects. I found this task more difficult due to not having outlines and being worried you can’t tell the shape of the object, yet I think it turned out pretty good seen as I haven’t experimented with this type of shadow marking before.
The image below is a view of what I was trying to recreate:
For this group of object I didn’t want them to be close together because I feared that I wouldn’t be able to show the objects apart and I didn’t want it to look like they were all merged and you couldn’t tell them apart.
This is a picture of my outcome, all in all I did find this more difficult due to having no outline yet I dod think you can tell what I was trying to recreate. I do think this may have worked better if I used either graphite or a pencil because I would have been able to do different tones and work on the lightness easier. Although I am happy with the result and I think you can see the the shapes.
All in all I found these tasks interesting as it was more challenging on my ability to be able to show shadows using different marks rather than normal shading which is what I’m used to, but it was a different way and I think the results were good.
Sophie's OCA Art Work 