Still Life

This is a 40 minute still life study drawn using a white pencil on black paper. I chose to draw using white pencil as I wanted to practise drawing using reverse values. I chose an small selection of differently shaped round objects, and arranged them so none of them were "kissing". The objects I chose allowed me to practise rendering light on rounded things, I think I successfully managed to do this as my illustration has a three-dimensional quality to it as a result of the shading. I feel that this was most successful with the handle of the mug inside the bowl and the shadow it casts.

I found it challenging to produce a range of values using a white pencil as it's lead was quite hard. I found that the most effective way of creating lighter tones was to shade using layers of pencil. I could have used cross-hatching to do this more effectively but I wanted to keep my lines all following the same/a similar direction to give the image a more fluid feel as a whole.