It took me a long time to get this finished, but I finally made it and I’m pleased with how it turned out!
This is my homework for tonight’s class. The syllabus said to practice contour drawing from a still life. And last class our instructor said to practice hatching. So dang. I hatched the heck out of this thing. And wow it took forever, but I did it! I realized once it was time to get hatching that I’d picked mostly all black things. But that just meant I had to get creative with my layering and my strokes. The Holga was my favorite to shade because it has such a great texture on it in real life and loose scribble hatching is my favorite kind to do.
The strap was my favorite to contour bc it was such a fun challenge to observe its form as it twisted around itself. Figuring out its shadow was also really fun, and honestly was easier to see and put in than the Holga shadow which kind of eluded me. I didn’t shade the strap at all because I wanted to keep my options open. I’m thinking about coming back in and doing it up as a stripey rainbow with colored pencils. I thought it would add a fun pop to this b&w image.
It took me so long to draw it that the sun had time to finish coming over our building and into our west-facing window which kind of confused my original understanding of the lighting a little. The light source still came from the same side but the sun was so much more diffused than the lamp-light’s crisp shadows... hence the struggle in seeing the faint-fuzzy sunshine shadows very well.
It was great practice, I learned a lot, and I’m kind of surprised and pleased to have it to tangibly hold and look at and see that it’s real and say to myself “I made that!” It’s the biggest and most detailed pen and ink drawing I’ve ever done.