Neutral Ground- Still LIfe

This drawing I started out first by using shredded pencil and lead, poured some on the paper then use my hand to smothered it to the paper. So the paper would look all shaded either light or dark. Then I used the knead able eraser that acts like a clay, its also a special eraser, cause it can go in any shape as I erase the shaded paper. So I used that, to erase the light areas and again not showing contour lines. And also at the same time I use cross-hatching to make the shaded areas darker so it will be more detailed. After doing that, the finishing touch of using the chalk for the light areas that was erased to make it even more stand out, for me.

Black paper/ White chalk of Seated Boy and Lincoln

 

Using a black paper and white chalk to draw was new to me. For the Seated boy I had to use the chalk to draw or sketch out the light areas, its more like the opposite of using the pencil. And again I have to not show the contour lines of my drawings. So I used my fingers to help shade the light areas and making it more detailed, that way it also helps to not show any contour lines. For the Lincoln I had to make my chalk small. I have to not use the tip of the chalk but the side, and I'm actually laying my chalk on the paper. I did the same technique like the first drawing, but using the chalk in a different way.

Cross-Hatching Sitting Boy

This sitting boy drawing I have to also do the cross-hatching skill, that I learned from the last cross-hatching still life. However, there were more cross-hatching to do and shading, this was tough.

Interior (Surface) Contour

My Cross-Hatching Still Life, it was one drawing that was difficult in some ways. I mean you really have to draw this, with making lines and crossing them together. I did some shading though to kind of help me fill out the rest of the space. To make it more hard was the shaded line that's going over the still Life. 

Positive and Negative Still Life

This drawing it was really fun and tiring. 

I had to make my mind flow with ideas to put details around the shaped Still Life.

With a paper that big it was a lot of work, but it was fun.