WEEK 7: Rendered shapes with shadows, and living space

The class has still been practicing rendered drawings working with shadows and lighting. In order to create this effect as best as possible, we need to blend different color markers and colored pencils as well. The clear blender marker all though not as effective on bond paper helps to blend these markers. Being limited on the amount of colors I have, I have to think and harder and spend more time playing around with blender colors on a scratch piece of paper to get the right hues and tones. These rendered drawings are still so much harder than they look, it almost looks like an elementary school kid drew this. The markers are sometimes tricky staying inside the lines due to the variety of tips on the markers.With the living space rendered drawings you are given a little more freedom. You can play around with patterns and other marker techniques. However with the objects being real you need to think of good ways to create correct textures and patterns that would suffice the space. When lighting and shadows come into play in a real living space its harder to think about how to make them look realistic. You need to study real spaces and their lighting. I really enjoy experimenting with techniques to create realistic surfaces such as wood, metal, leather, etc.