Crosshatching Still life drawing

Media: Pencil 2D Crosshatching Drawing 

We did positive/negative still life in the class. We were to use crosshatching to draw the still life. The purpose of this assignment was to understand the values of light and dark. Cross lines were projected over the still life which could also help illustrate the objects' three dimensional shape. The lines go straight on the background and they deform as they pass the still life.

Crosshatching lines were expected to be flat on the background since it is flat screen (Shadow of the still life looks a little three dimensional because of reflecting light when I was taking the picture). I emphasized the body sculpture, because, as you can see in the original picture taken, there is not much detail on the darkened side of the sculpture.

This crosshatching technique was expected throughout our assignments given previously, such as negative/positive still life and bird. The blank space of the paper was expected to be filled with any kinds of drawing, pattern, or etc. We did not have to do great or excellent on that drawing assignment but just to familiarize with the pencil’s characteristics, and dark and light values.

In my opinion, the concept of this exercise is for better understanding of three dimensional shapes and use of crosshatching. Additionally, contour drawing was one of the concepts. We did not copy contour lines that were there beforehand, but we made contour lines by ourselves by looking at the real figure.