The aim of this exercise was to use either pencil or fineliner to produce an objective drawing with a high degree of visual accuracy. I produced my drawing with a range of pencils from HB through to 2B.
I really enjoyed this exercise and I am quite pleased with the result. This exercise made me really look at the object and think about proportion. There are a lot of geometric patterns within the trainer design that I had never previously noticed. I chose this shoe because it has a lot of different textures, which made me experiment with shading and mark making to try to represent these textures e.g. smooth leather, versus rough webbing. The exercise also made me look carefully at the relative tones of different parts of the shoe in order to convert from the colour that I was seeing on the object to different shades of grey in the drawing.
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