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I've found that I like using shading to depict light and dark, even though it takes longer than hatching or scribbling. In the field I'll probably use more hatching, especially contour hatching, as it's pretty fast and effective. Stippling goes way too slowly for me to use in the field, but I drew some illustrations for my dissertation using stippling, and it is a very good way to depict both light/shadow and curvature. I want to get better at depicting 3-dimensional objects on my pages. It'll take a lot of practice. Does anybody else have trouble seeing the reflected light?
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I have always seen the reflective light but missed it in my drawing of it. I think it would be easy to overlook, but am happy to know the breakdown and realize how I missed it.
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Yes, Allison, I also have trouble seeing the reflected light. The demo helped though, especially when we looked at the strawberries. I think the point is that we should be sure to draw in the reflected light even though we can’t see it well because this will help us get a 3D effect.
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I've not yet practiced chiaroscuro on fruit. Here are acorns and wood. I'll try these again in a few weeks.
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I love what you have done here and delighted to see it. Once I get more control of my practice time I will try to share as well. This is fun.
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It's interesting that I can see that the chiaroscuro happens even within the seed spots on the strawberries. I love learning things that we already know, but take for granted.
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I noticed that in the seed spots too! Very cool to notice things like that.
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I took the line drawings of the acorn, daisy and butterfly and did shading on all of them using the techniques presented and it was fun to see them come to life.
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