Traditional Drawing (Week Fifteen - David Hyde)

This week, I was tasked with shading techniques - executing various ways of shading objects.

For the class drawing task, I went with hatching and general motions with my pencil to build up tone.

Having more control over my pencil meant I could get more precise perspective and tonal density.

One thing I find difficult is to control softer pencils, for me it is way more difficult to create crosshatching and various other shading techniques because of how it contacts the paper. Furthermore, in doing so it looks very blotchy, but it is needed because harder graphite can only go so dark.