Blog of scratchboard wildlife artist Heather Ward.
Comments about new and upcoming work,
book reviews, and tutorials.
Thursday, April 19, 2012
Academia
Here she is! My first still life is finished. It was quite an adventure and I did learn some things about combining charcoal and graphite. If I had to do it over again, there are some techniques I would have changed, but overall I am happy with how it came out.
I used graphite for the lamp, glasses and open book pages. Since I did make the graphite quite heavy in the shadow areas, it made it hard to photograph because of the reflective nature of the material. But with some angled lighting I think the photo accurately represents the real-life drawing.
Prints are available.
Now, back to some animals!
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
WIP - Still Life II
I have to admit that drawing books is kind of fun. It is actually pretty easy to use the indent method to get white words on a dark background. The two groups of books are done in this photo, and I started on the open book. My next step will be the lamp, however. At least the lampshade.
Tuesday, April 03, 2012
WIP - Still Life
I have made some progress on the still life. I am quite happy with the books, but the globe still needs some work (and I need to finish that before I move on to the next part). My problem now is the graphite tabletop. I cannot get the shadow from the books dark enough with graphite, and I cannot put charcoal on top of existing graphite. All things to figure out. This is why I started this project.
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