Picture 1

Picture 2

These are my personal selection from the self directed study for week 3; I chose these pieces because they show a range of objects from natural to inanimate. These drawings, In my opinion, capture the shape and the form, the light and shadow nicely. Each drawing was composed using the same media; A 4B graphite pencil, each taking roughly 20 minutes each to complete to this standard.

The focal point of both images seem to originate from the stem of the largest objects; the stem of the banana and the handle of the paint brush. From here, an implied line is followed; in picture one, the viewer follows the banana's outline to the left and down into the orange and apple. Where as in picture 2, the implied line starts at the handle of the paint brush, goes around the glass tumbler, back down onto the paintbrush and around to the tea light.

A common error within the images is how the images are in the centre of a big white space, this is more prominent in picture 2, where as picture 1 has lines in the background to break up the space.