Still Life Drawing

For the past two weeks, we have been working on still life drawings based on the objects put before us. First I started by sketching out the contour of the objects to get the proportions and the positioning right. Then when I was satisfied with the positioning of the lines I drew the contour of the objects with harder more clean lines, overall though the contour was quite light to keep realism in the photo. After finishing the contour I started lightly shading my drawing with an HB pencil, after going over everything with the HB I started to go in with my 2B pencil then after going in with my 6B pencil. Using these different levels of darkness in my shading overall resulted in more realistic shadows in my drawing.

I chose to do an L composition for my drawing. I chose this composition because it had the best flow of objects for what position I had of the objects.  My L composition consists of two skulls making the bottom of the L and the vase making the vertical part of the L. After drawing the basic outline of my composition I started to shade in the curtains behind the skulls to fill in the negative space.