Pastel Still Life

I planned my composition for my still life by selecting related items that would look good together in a drawing, and doing many quick thumbnail sketches. A thumbnail sketch is small fast drawing kind of like a rough draft that allows you to try many different approaches to your drawing before you do your final copy. We also used viewfinders which allow you to view your drawing from many different angles, they also help when deciding how to setup your objects for the final drawing. Many items in the pastel appear 3-dimensional, this is accomplished by coloring different parts light or dark, also known as value.

Photographs

This is a picture that i used in our photoshop unit. In this

unit we took an interesting picture and went into the program photoshop and added things like shadows. We also took all the color out of the photos for one part and it kind of gave it more of like an ancient look. I really liked this unit even though it was very short, because i find computers really interesting and i think that doing cool art stuff on there like with our photographs was really fun.