The process of this drawing was very tedious. The first step was to brainstorm compositions and figure out what area of the display you were going to draw. After you had decided, on your rough copy, you had to block in the rough idea of the shadows. Once that was finished you got you're big paper and had to do a contour sketch of all the details in your two objects. After that step you had to block in all of your shadows or shifts in light and then you could move on to filling your blocked in shadows with your lightest shade. Once your lightest shadows were in place you could go in with your second lightest shade until you got to your darkest (about 4-5 shades total) and then you were done. 


The composition i chose for my drawing was the diagonal composition. you can tell this because my objects are placed in the bottom left corner and flow upward towards the top right corner. The point of this is do have the eye look for the bottom left to the top right. The vase on the  top left corner helps balance out the heaviness and helps make the bottom right corner less empty. 
  

Self Portrait Analysis

Photorealism Self Portrait

1. The art style i chose of this assignment was Photorealism.The purpose of this style us to use invisible paint strokes to create the look of an actual photograph. 

2. In order to achieve the look of Photorealism, i used the same colour skin tone and used a blending tool to create the smooth look of a photograph.

3. First what i did was i made a layer over top of the original photograph and outlined distinguished features with a dark brown colour. Then, i painted over different features on multiple different layers to make it easy to edit and manipulate each one to my liking.

4. i do feel that if i had enough time i would have done a better job, but for the time i was given and taking into account how many times i restarted, i am satisfied with the end result.