Inspire Drawing

My goals were to draw the shadows that I could see from the model.  I accomplished this goal by mapping out the shadows, getting the right shade of color, and then blending the pencil together to minimize the amount of lines of shading from the pencils.  My drawing is about dramatic shadows and reflecting light.  The shadows in the picture make the letters.  The most difficult challenge I encountered was the lighting moving.  Every time I went back to work on my shadows and drawing, the light was always moved.  I tried my best to get the light where it was so I could draw it.  I took a picture of the model with the light the first time I set it up, so every time I set up my model again, I tried to get it exactly like the picture I took.  My drawing really works where the really dark shadows are.  The shadows make the letters pop out of the paper.  Something that I learned was how to use the different pencils.  Before the drawing, I didn’t know what pencils to use when.  After the drawing, I know how to use them all.  Connie Hayes was my mentor for this because she used a lot of color and I used a bunch of different shades of pencil.  I learned how to do light shadows in the background from Laura.  I think she did a really good job with her background.  The background really makes the letters stand out.  If I had a do over I would have not blended the pencil together.  I think it would have looked better with just the shading and not the blending.  The blending made the pencil go all over the paper and this was a problem for the white places of the paper.  The thing I feel best about my drawing was the shadows cast on the letters.  I think this is the best thing because it makes the letters come off the page.