Week 7- Soft and Hard surfaces and texture

Week 7- Soft and Hard surfaces and texture

This session, we had to draw objects that have distinct surface types including soft, hard, smooth and rough surface textures. For example, cloth, brick, glass, wood etc. The drawings above and on the right are small study drawings of a asymmetrical vase and corduroy clothe, zoomed closely at their texture/surface. The importance of this session was acknowledging on when applying these techniques: naturalistic or impressionistic technique, depending on the surface of the objects that we draw. For instance, cloth is knitted and it takes time to draw every detail, so impressionistic technique had to be used. This session is focusing on efficiency, and what objects should be detailed and not detailed in our drawing.

This image here is a directed study drawing of still life object of a glass jar, which took 20 minutes to complete. This was very challenging to draw on paper as glass have a hard surface, refracts light and it is a shiny object. The drawing was successful as it is clearly definable that the object is a glass jar; looking shiny and translucent. However, there are some errors in perspective, the angle  of the top of the jar and  the bottom look irregular. But the focus on this task was to understand the principles of drawing different types of surfaces.