First time drawing fabric with three different mediums and three different colored papers. My favorite medium we used was the basic charcoal pencil, it was my favorite because I understood it the best. To me the White Charcoal was the hardest and I think part of it was because it was the first time drawing fabric with a white pencil. But it was the hardest because at first it kind of confused me with how your really shading the parts that are the brightest and barely shading the parts that are darkest. The white prisma fabric was my favorite but it was also the third one so I had two others to practice on. To me the white prisma looks the most realistic but it still could have had better mid tones and brighter in some areas.
Did you use a wide range of values? (A range from white to black with at least 9 values). Explain how is this evident?
Yes, It's evident because there's mid tones through out the piece and there's shades of light and dark. There's more darker areas than lighter areas, but in between the dark and lights there's lots of grays for the in between values. I think overall there's more gray values instead of lights and darks so I think the piece would look better if there were more lights.
Explain how your knowledge and creating practice studies with value contributed to your piece.
I've used charcoal before, but it was freshman year and I haven't used it since. When I did the piece freshman year it was way too dark and there wasn't any mid tones or lights. Then when we first started using charcoal again I blended too much so it didn't look like it had any texture. So with practice and less blending my piece looked more realistic however there are some parts that don't look as realistic as they could be.
Describe the blending and transitions in your fabric (discuss your use of pressure with pencil/colored pencil/charcoal pencil and other techniques to achieve this).
In the fabric I tried to make the shadows as dark as possible and when I did that it was hard for me to make mid tones but when I did I lighted up on the pressure as I got toward lighter areas. I also used a paper towel to blend out some of the areas to make the transitions smoother because before it looked like a clear line rather than gradually getting lighter or darker. I mainly just used different pressures to achieve the shades I was looking for, it was harder for me to apply less pressure to make some areas lighter, which is why the piece is darker than it should be in some areas.
Explain how your interpretation of texture is essential in capturing the look of the object.
The texture of fabric is typically really smooth so when you're drawing the fabric it makes the most since to make it as smooth as possible. I think the smoother it looks the more realistic it looks because fabric doesn't look rough most the time, I tried to make the fabric look as smooth as possible with blending as little as possible. Not blending was really hard for me because I like to blend the colors and to me it looks better when you blend, however the piece looks more like graphite when you leave it alone.
If you could recreate your pieces what would you do differently to enhance the final outcome?
If I were to recreate the piece I would add lighter values and make the transitions a little smoother. I would also add highlights behind the darker pieces to make it look like its standing out more than it is. I think by adding highlights behind the shadows it would make the piece look more realistic than it is now and add more definition. I think by making the transitions smoother the piece would look more like fabric rather than shapes. I would also change some of the darker areas, I think some of the shadows ended up too dark and I think it would look more realistic if some of the shadows were more of grays rather than blacks.
Yes, It's evident because there's mid tones through out the piece and there's shades of light and dark. There's more darker areas than lighter areas, but in between the dark and lights there's lots of grays for the in between values. I think overall there's more gray values instead of lights and darks so I think the piece would look better if there were more lights.
Explain how your knowledge and creating practice studies with value contributed to your piece.
I've used charcoal before, but it was freshman year and I haven't used it since. When I did the piece freshman year it was way too dark and there wasn't any mid tones or lights. Then when we first started using charcoal again I blended too much so it didn't look like it had any texture. So with practice and less blending my piece looked more realistic however there are some parts that don't look as realistic as they could be.
Describe the blending and transitions in your fabric (discuss your use of pressure with pencil/colored pencil/charcoal pencil and other techniques to achieve this).
In the fabric I tried to make the shadows as dark as possible and when I did that it was hard for me to make mid tones but when I did I lighted up on the pressure as I got toward lighter areas. I also used a paper towel to blend out some of the areas to make the transitions smoother because before it looked like a clear line rather than gradually getting lighter or darker. I mainly just used different pressures to achieve the shades I was looking for, it was harder for me to apply less pressure to make some areas lighter, which is why the piece is darker than it should be in some areas.
Explain how your interpretation of texture is essential in capturing the look of the object.
The texture of fabric is typically really smooth so when you're drawing the fabric it makes the most since to make it as smooth as possible. I think the smoother it looks the more realistic it looks because fabric doesn't look rough most the time, I tried to make the fabric look as smooth as possible with blending as little as possible. Not blending was really hard for me because I like to blend the colors and to me it looks better when you blend, however the piece looks more like graphite when you leave it alone.
If you could recreate your pieces what would you do differently to enhance the final outcome?
If I were to recreate the piece I would add lighter values and make the transitions a little smoother. I would also add highlights behind the darker pieces to make it look like its standing out more than it is. I think by adding highlights behind the shadows it would make the piece look more realistic than it is now and add more definition. I think by making the transitions smoother the piece would look more like fabric rather than shapes. I would also change some of the darker areas, I think some of the shadows ended up too dark and I think it would look more realistic if some of the shadows were more of grays rather than blacks.