Still life black and white

Working in groups of 3-4 create a series of 10 still-life setups EACH (5 using a White backgrounds and 5 using a Black background). Each group member must participate in various "roles" (outline...

Black And White #2 by Juj Winn

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For this assignment, I had to draw the same still-life as in my previous post, but this time I had to use 3 values: black, white, and gray. The same rules applied as far as finding a good composition based on the rule of thirds and the distribution of value. I had to do the same process for this assignment too. One had to be in charcoal: The other had to be made of cut paper. It was more challenging to do the black and gray cut-outs, because if the black shapes were glued on in a slightly…

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Description Finally and at long last, I'm calling this finished. I'm happy with it on the whole, especially the metal end and the filament but due to some issues with parts of the paper developing a weird texture, I'm not happy with the main section of the bulb area but it was kind of out of my hands. Anyway, not sure how many hours it took in total but I'd guess maybe 80 ish. I'd like to give a huge thanks to for giving me permission to draw from their reference photo. I love how the light…

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