This drawing took around 1 hour and 30 minutes, on A3 paper using graphite. This is the final still life art piece, while it does not manage to facilitate everything developed throughout my still life studies, overall it is the drawing with the highest quality throughout the still life studies. The vantage point while simple, works well for the visuals, showing a strong shadow emitting behind the setup. This helps ground the image and develops the sense of depth.
The medium allowed for a variety of tonal depth, this helped the shadows work well describing the form and the shape of the objects and consolidating their location on the image avoiding the issue of floating objects. Shadows were used effectively yet subtly on the drapery being considerably the strongest use of shadow to express the form and flow of the cloth. The tone is also used along the background of the drawing to help bring forward the table of objects and create a sense of depth for the viewer.
Arguably there is a few problems apparent with the image such as, the objects lacking finer detail. While the visuals as a whole work well, the individual objects whether it be because the object was simple for example the boxes or due to the object being quite small in the composition for example the skull. There is a lack of detail on the focal points of the image but that doesn’t remove much quality from the overall drawing, considering if this piece was done larger more detail work have been necessary and would have overall improved the visual appeal of the piece of work.
