Foliage

I enjoyed foliage. I'm beginning to be able to render quicker, which is nice since it used to take me nearly 10 hours to get something to where I wanted it. I got an 8B and Ebony pencil to help with dark detailing and it has definitely made a difference. The 8B pencil I got was one of those "woodless" ones, and it can really get a fine, dark line! It's nice! I don't know if I'll be allowed to work with pencil for homework anymore (can't remember), but I think either way I'm going to do conte or something along those lines for the next one.

I got some white conte and grey paper just to play around with. I think it's going to be great.

So I chose dead leaves for the foliage, and I'm really glad I made that choice. They're crisper, have more interesting lines, and layer interestingly on the ground. Although there isn't necessarily as many ranges of depth, I still think it creates a new, almost harder challenge, since each leaf goes back in space, there are less of them, and there needs to be a definite difference, so I've become more focused on each line and how to create the best depth possible. So, if it comes up in critique for some reason as unadventurous, I beg to differ. I found it realistically challenging. Sure it's not some huge tree, but I feel like if I tried that the paper is too small to render it correctly.

I can't wait to draw skeletons!! I've been seriously looking forward to tomorrow's class ever since I saw the skeleton drawings on the walls at the beginning of the semester. I hope I don't disappoint myself!