Object Still Life: coloured

I chose to use oil pastels to capture my still life arrangement in colour.

Object still life: blue ballpoint

Continuing the series of Still life studies, this time the objects have been drawn in blue ballpoint pen, which proves surprisingly versatile in expressing dark and light values.

Object Still Life - cross hatching

This time the objects were treated to a cross hatching technique. I think the most successful parts of the drawing are where I have followed the shape of the object with the line.

Object Still Life - smooth shading

approx. 2-3 hrs

This took a lot longer than expected and demanded a lot of control. This exercise has definitely shown me that I have a lot of room for improvement in drawing realistically! But I think I have learnt a lot about reflections - it is only looking at it now that I can see which reflection relates to other objects in the collection, and it's interesting to see the extent to which they interact with each other.

Object Still Life - Line drawing

approx. 30 minute study

The first study of grouped objects, a line sketch with minimal shading