Value Project Blog

I wasn't very excited to start this project, since I had already drawn ten different value scales for my drawing class a few days before. However, this probably helped me complete the scales quickly, so I then had more time to work on my value composition. The scale drawing was a little tedious, since I was trying so hard to keep all the edges clean and to clearly differentiate each value block. I constantly had to keep going over parts of it with the kneadable eraser until each shade was solid and had no darker or lighter spots. After that, I moved on to drawing the outline for my value composition, which was far more interesting than drawing the scale. I tried to make it a somewhat abstracted form based off of a tree branch. On the left I had the shapes more geometrically based, and I had them progress to more organic shapes on the right, which all together made up the entire composition. I used a full range of values, with some of the shapes dark grey, and others completely white. It became very hard to try to make sure the values didn't blend into each other in the composition, so I just began to pick shades that contrasted somewhat next to each other. Overall, it was a pretty decent activity.