For the last few weeks, we were assigned our first still life drawing. Our drawings consisted of flowers, animal skulls, a stuffed bunny, and a small statue figure. My drawing included the statue figure, a small bunch of flowers, and one animal skull on top of a table surface.
We started this assignment by having to draw a few rough drafts of all the different things on the table, and each person had to draw what they could see from where they were sitting. This was so drawings of the same things could look different with different angles and perspectives. We had to start with drawing all of the contour lines, and then shading in everything lightly before adding the darker shades to any darker spots. After we had finished 3-4 rough drafts, we had to choose 1 of the drawings to add value and shading to. This was to decide on the image to use for the full sized still life. For the still life drawing, we mostly repeated the same process for the 1 rough draft that was chosen. The only differences were the sizes and more detail in the shading.
For each still life drawing, we had to have a composition, such as diagonal or L-composition. The Composition I used for my still life is L-composition. The composition in this picture is created by the placements of the objects (Focal point). The statue was drawn in first to get an idea of how much space the flowers and skull would have to make an L-composition. I drew the tabletop that the objects were on to leave open space at the bottom to make to bottom part of the L-composition. With the focal point taking up the middle, left and most of the top of this still life, the remainder of the drawing creates the L-shape/L-composition with the negative space. I tried to make sure that the empty space is this drawing would seem purposeful, but wouldn't take away from the drawing.
