Shadows and reflected light.
For this exercise we were asked to place to ceramic objects on a surface with light sighting onto it, once we’d done this we’d have to draw them both clearly showing the lighting (shadows) using a charcoal stick.
For this task I decided to use charcoal as it has worked well for smudging and toning in my previous exercises and I felt most comfortable using this material. I did find this task more challenging as we had to clearly show blocks of shadow and I’m not used to doing gradual toning from where the lights change.
Below is a picture of my outcome:
This piece I wasn’t my best work I did find it complicated to show such big blocks of colour of the shadows and not be able to fully tone the objects but it was a good exercise to get used to how lighting works onto objects and how it’s different all the way around. I have learnt how different lighting works with different textures and how shadows and lighting focus on different spots and not just the same spots. It was an interesting exercise to do yet I’m not completely happy with my outcome, I do think it’s a clear indication of the task but I feel like I wasn’t in my best element for this task and wasn’t used to the type of drawing. Yet I am happy with experimenting and finding out how lighting does affect drawing with different textures and how shadows do form.
All in all this exercise was complicated in coming out of my comforts own yet I have learn a lot about drawing and how lighting works that will be handy to add to my drawing skills.
Sophie's OCA Art Work 