Drawing Skills

We learnt some drawing skills in our lesson so that we can quickly sketch out our ideas to people rather than explaining them. I've always loved drawing so at first I was pretty confident, but this was a very different technique where you hold the pencil at the end rather than the tip. With this I felt like I was a lot more out of control and I wasn't very keen, so I started to hold the pencil from the middle so that I could sketch quicker but with more control. 

We began by drawing 2D shapes and lines to learn the simple drawing skills. We then moved onto practising shading, I went through all of my pencils and went from the darkest to the lightest shade the pencil would go. With this I learnt that I prefer working with B pencils over H pencils as I feel they create a softer tone. To practise this further we then drew shapes and used shading to make them 3D. 

When I got home I wanted to work on my drawing skills further as I haven't sketched that much since leaving 6 form. I took a jug, cup and bowl and placed them together so I could create a still life. I am not completely happy with it as some of the areas of shading are a bit messy.