#5: Reflection

I think that the biggest challenge I had with the previous assignment (post #4) was trying to find a good balance between the ink and water to create different shades. In the end, I started off with using only the ink to paint in the darker areas, and then slowly add in water to create lighter and lighter shades, as needed throughout the process of creating this painting. This method of painting the darkest areas to the lightest sections ended up working really well for me. Something that I saw done by someone else that I really liked was the way that they contoured their artwork. You could really see the defining lines of where the light was hitting the object, and I really wanted to focus on that this time around for my reinterpretation. However, I felt like it was also really hard to get the clean lines that I wanted with the ink, which is why I ended up switching my medium to charcoal. I thought that charcoal would be a really great medium to experiment with again for this new focus because of how forgiving and easy it is to manipulate, especially with the kneaded eraser. I don’t really feel like I got any serious critique on what to fix, or what to change for the next time, but someone commented on this sliver of white that ended up peeking out in my drawing (even though it was an accident because of the cropping) and wanted to try bringing that out on purpose this time. They mentioned how having that one sliver of white seemed really blinding in the midst of all the darkness, and so I tried to incorporate that again, as well as incorporate really light spots in between dark areas throughout the drawing.