Week 7 Drawing Soft and Hard Textures

Here I started by drawing a large water vase which had a shiny but worn metal surface. This drawing was done using a charcoal stick to create the darkest and most obvious details. Once these marks had been applied I then smudged the charcoal into the general shape adding more for shadows and reflections. Finally I used a rubber to clean up the image. Since the vase itself is made from what I believe was copper it was a very hard surface, for this surface I used the charcoal to create a bold image. This makes the vase the main object in the picture as it helps it to stand out. The cloth that the vase is sitting on was very soft so I kept it very light and only used a lot of charcoal on the main creases. I then smudged the charcoal to show more of a 3d curve to the flow of the cloth and by using this method it gets rid of the simple single lines.

The second image of a collection of jars, jugs and other object on cloth was also done using charcoal. This image is a good representation of hard and soft textures as you can see that the cloth surface that the objects lye on is light and looks flexible due to the transparency I have given it. On the other hand the solid jugs and other objects have hardly any transparency unless they are made with a transparent material like the glass jar (glass). I found that achieving this effect wasn't as difficult as I first imagined as it was simply a case of the pressure applied to certain areas of the image to make it darker and then smudging those areas to create lighter and more transparent marks. By using this method for the whole drawing I believe it worked quite well as the solid objects seem to dominate the drawing.