Still life

What aspects of each drawing have been successful, and what did you have problems with?

I think in general the line drawing was more successful than the tone piece I think mostly because of the simplistic indications of texture were quite successful like the stippling on the orange and the texture of the banana. Aspects I think were less successful were the other half of the pepper not especially looking like a pepper and the boll not having the correct shape. I need to work on drawing curbs more.

The other tonal peace had less successful aspects but I do like the vibrancy and freeness of it. Less successful elements are the composition, with it being to bunched up and makes the piece look untidy.

Did you manage to get a sense of depth in your drawings? What elements of the drawing and still life groupings helped to create that sense.

The depth is captured in the line drawing by mostly having the objects bunched together on a plait but with a letus leaf in the foreground that over laps with the plait and a banana resting on the plat of to one side. the overlapping creates the depth.

     In the tone piece the depth is partly created by tone and the over lapping of objects but also the banana that is set way back from the rest of the objects.

What difficulties were created by restricted to line or tone?

 Being restricted to line makes suggesting form harder by not being able to use the fall of light to describe the object such as the right had side of the pepper.

     Using only tone and pastels presented difficulties in judging detail as you don't have the skeleton to add the meat to, as you usually do so I found myself orientating around the picture using the original blocks of dark tone laid down.