I needed to practice shading to render light and shadow in my drawings, and I thought this was a perfect drawing to practice with. I also liked the challenge of drawing the gun. Drawing the straight lines was going to be easy with a ruler, but I knew getting the angle right was a different story. I had to redo them a few times, which also required a lot of erasing and re-shading.
I struggled quite a bit with the top left corner section of the drawing. Making dark marks on white paper was so much easier that the other way around. Perhaps would have done better with a larger drawing, but then again, I just didn't know what I was doing. (The saliva dripping on the creature's mouth in my version makes that quite obvious!)
There are no techniques in my drawings in the sense that I just draw with my intuition. I'm a trial and error kind of learner. (That's formally known as a tactile-kinesthetic learner, isn't it?) I've read books and articles online, so I'm familiar with drawing terminologies mentally, but they're not sinking in. They will eventually but not until I get to a point where I'm able to "see". At this time, I'm just exploring and indulging my eagerness to create finished drawings. I'm just playing, in other words. That should let you know why I'm not being articulate—that is, not using drawing terminologies—to write about my process.
Completed: 8 November 2012 6:26P
Time Spent: 10 hours
Materials: Different pencil grades, vine charcoal, tortillons, regular eraser, kneaded eraser, Faber-Castell pencil eraser, Pentel Ain Clic Knock Triangular Eraser, red marker, ruler
Paper: Canson Bristol, 11in x 14in
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