I really enjoyed this assignment. I liked just sitting with something again and trying to copy it, and knowing my exact goals for the finished product. It was exciting to learn a skill that is so new to me as I’ve never experimented with value, especially not in this degree of detail. That said, I really disliked doing the quicker pen drawings. I for sure see the value in practicing value with a pen, and it felt so different from the pencil and I had to use a much different approach. I could not find a single pen in my house that wasn’t sort of dried up & that had a thin tip so it was a bit challenging to make my marks clearly every time. I also struggled with making the pen part look like it’s not just a bunch of scribbles. It was especially hard in one of my drawings where most of it is kind of a pale mid-tone, so I found it very difficult to do in pen. I like the look of the pencil ones, but I also couldn’t get my pencils to the sharpness of a mechanical pencil even with constant sharpening, so this may have given them more of a fuzzy look. I loved both of the images that I had to recreate, it was fun to look at the tiny variations in value in the darkest spots of the image.
Excellent work.
I really enjoyed this assignment. I liked just sitting with something again and trying to copy it, and knowing my exact goals for the finished product. It was exciting to learn a skill that is so new to me as I’ve never experimented with value, especially not in this degree of detail. That said, I really disliked doing the quicker pen drawings. I for sure see the value in practicing value with a pen, and it felt so different from the pencil and I had to use a much different approach. I could not find a single pen in my house that wasn’t sort of dried up & that had a thin tip so it was a bit challenging to make my marks clearly every time. I also struggled with making the pen part look like it’s not just a bunch of scribbles. It was especially hard in one of my drawings where most of it is kind of a pale mid-tone, so I found it very difficult to do in pen. I like the look of the pencil ones, but I also couldn’t get my pencils to the sharpness of a mechanical pencil even with constant sharpening, so this may have given them more of a fuzzy look. I loved both of the images that I had to recreate, it was fun to look at the tiny variations in value in the darkest spots of the image.