06/2024
Mediums: General’s Charcoal Pencil 2B, 4B, 6B… 9″x12″ sketchbook… 18″x24″ sketchbook…
We continue to use the contour technique, but rather than using a black pen, we use charcoal pencils.
Within this assignment, we focus on the spaces between each object. We carefully train our lines to create proper perspective, proportion and composition as we look from a still life. This type of art is through depictions of inanimate objects as the main subject matter. It can range from food, plants or manmade objects. In this case, we used man made objects our professor put together for us in class.
We do try to follow what we learned in the other parts of this project, attempting to use a single line and to not trace over them again. We capture strong silhouettes of our objects, creating enough detail in them for others to understand what we are representing without actually drawing the inner details.
The first three sections of our assignment definitely helped create a strong guideline for composition and proportion, which was something I heavily wanted to work on. I used the still life drawings as practice for our under the sink image, understanding and deepening my knowledge as we hear small critiques over the course of our class. For this section, I decided to “zoom in” on the still life, focusing on very specific sections so I can feel more comfortable as I go. I found this method to be not only enjoyable, but also incredibly helpful as I personally struggled with proportions.
Now, one of my favorite pieces within this project, Under the Kitchen Sink. I have a strong adoration for clean lines so this piece feels really nice to look at time to time. We took a lot of time into finding the negative space between each object under our kitchen sink, creating strong outlines that allow our viewers to quickly recognize what each item may be.
The first image is the practice, then the second is the final.
