Week 1 Basic marks on paper

 

To start I drew some basic shapes and marks on a sheet of A3 which you can see above. These shapes and marks consisted of dots, lines and curves. The point of this exercise was simply to learn and make sure that I was holding the pencil correctly so it would be much easier to get straighter and finer lines on drawings in the future.

Then I moved on to some basic shading by drawing boxes and then creating a gradient from one corner or side to the other by applying pressure to the tip of the pencil. These gradients seemed to work well so I then drew a circle and shaded it to give the effect of a sphere. To do this I first started shading vertically with curved lines to give the basic shape which worked well. Once I had shaded the object in one direction I decided to add horizontal lines to form a cross hatched shading which I believe significantly improved the look of the object.

The final sketch is of a box placed on a round table. This sketch was mainly to use shading to show how the different sides of the box react to direct light and how the scenes shadow is casted on the floor. By drawing this I could use the technique of holding the pencil to draw the basic shape of the scene and then the shading techniques to show the effect that the light has on the object. I believe that this is quite a basic sketch which easily shows how the objects have absorbed the direct light.