Wow! It's my first time blogging! How should I start? Well ,to kick things off it was a mighty enjoyable class today as we started on ,"drawing the still life". Basically the rules were very straight forward: i.e. we were asked to bring along a fruit (in case we got hungry, just kidding, my fruit was a mango), and we were asked to draw it.......sounds simple enough, right? Yet if you tried it my friends, you'll find it annoyingly difficult at first, but once you get a grip of it, you'll find yourself enjoying it. We were taught three important techniques, imperative to insure a good drawing, not one that would make mirrors break and babies cry:
DRAWING TECHNIQUES;
1) Form and Wrapping - this is drawing adjacent to the lines of the object you are drawing, rotating your pencil to achieve a uniformed and realistic drawing.
2) Soft Edges - this is where after a harsh outline or sketch, we passed the eraser softly over the outline softly resulting in a more realistic finish, abstaining from a "cartoonish" "Tom and Jerry" look.
3) And Finally Transition Fading - passing the pencil from light to dark regions, applying more pressure on the dark regions and reducing pressure when nearing light regions.
After about three hours of intense trail and error, and a mess of erasing and graphite, this came into view:
It did make me feel proud to stand back and reflect on my delicious mango, almost good enough to eat..........maybe I'll just take a little bite, no one will notice. But seriously, it did look like the best of my amateur drawings and it was a great experience to experiment on something more relaxing and fun once in a while. Perhaps it could use a little work and I'll try to experiment on various other techniques in the future.
Until then, fellow bloggers......................
