Charcoal, Sponge, Brick Eraser. Big Sheet of Paper, Big leaf as reference, Napkin

Spring Semester

For this drawing I first layered the entire sheet with charcoal and smudged it with the sponge. I proceeded on by outlining the shape of the leaf with more charcoal. I added some details and more material. Then crumbled up my napkin and placed it inside the outline of my image to give it the “wrinkly leaf” texture. I then used my brick eraser and created what would be the stem of the leaf with it. If I were to change anything I would get rid of that ridiculous cast shadow on my image. It is no where near accurate as to what I was seeing, and I cant tell you what was going through my head at the time. However, I’m somewhat glad I made this mistake, because I definitely wont be doing that again.