Charcoal Still Life

FINAL PRODUCT


DAY ONE


DAY TWO


DAY THREE


This was our charcoal still life! I remember doing this for the first time in Art foundation and it being something that I really enjoyed and I'm happy to say that I still do. This project took a lot of time, unfortunately, I happened to miss one of the classes so I don't have all five days of work but I did work after school a lot so that I could finish.

A lot of the feedback that I got was about my contour lines not being present enough and after looking at other peoples work and then looking at my own I understand why they said that. I had to change the shape of all my objects so many times that I think the contour was lost and if I could re-do the project that would be something that I focused on more.

All in all, I think that I'm kind of proud of this project since I believe that it is one of the better things that I've drawn in the past years. I know that I did struggle a lot with the sizing of the objects and with the placement of some of the highlights but I think I eventually figured those out. The best thing I think that I was able to do was portray how I was looking at the glass on the paper. I tried to use enough contrast to make it stand out but I think I should have used some more so that I could have improved on the porcelain cup in the corner. But other than those things I really am happy with the way that this turned out and hope that I can improve more!


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