Tone and Shade

1. White object - Vase - Pencil

2. White object - Vase - Pen

3. Black object - Scrap of paper - Pencil

For this week, we have moved on to putting tones and shades of the objects we have been given and truthfully, it was a more comfortable for me to do this compare to perspective drawing. Also, there is an object that we can focus on which is fantastic opportunity for observational skill.

For the first drawing was white vase done by pencil with different graphite. Personally, the way I drew the vase was surprisingly a successful piece which took about 15~20mins. One of the best features about using pencil is that I can use my finger to smudge the excessive amount of graphite to spread along the object. Despite the fact that smudge is quick and effective, it is not a good method to use since it looks unnatural and harder for us to work later on if it goes wrong.

2^nd one is the same object but different material, drawn by a ball-pen. It was rather interesting putting shades with pen since it just doesn’t do the same job with pencil which you can smudge or easily able to put shadow. Despite the fact that I am not as skilled drawing with pen than pencil, it was a good practice and because of this, I would like to use other dry materials to experience differences.

The black object we've been given, due to insufficient amount of black object there were, we drew a black scrap of paper. It was challenging task for our group since the object was more unorthodox compare to other simpler objects (cone, box etc). However, because of its odd shape, it was more fascinating than a simple shaped cone or box; I was more focused on the black paper than the vase I was drawing before. Despite the fact it was rather stressful and challenging, I have learned more from drawing this unorthodox shaped paper than dull looking objects.