Monday, November 28, 2011

Week 7: Still Life. Soft and hard surfaces & texture

The quick 10 minute pencil study is intended to show the effect of light on textures belonging to fruits such as apples or oranges. These surface types required a naturalistic approach which meant using hatching to depict as accurately as possible the tonal contrast and the relationship between objects. There seems to be no issue in the way light distinctively reflects on the apple’s and on the orange’s surfaces, other than the obvious deformed spherical lines that give shape to them, which should be toned down where light hits. Other than that fact, texture could be greatly improved on the apples but only in a chromatic sense, colours being the only improvement that could truly work on differentiating their surfaces and a good background where their shadow could appear.


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