(Thought I may as well stick in theses quick practise sheets I did using a Chinese brush.....just to get the hang of it.)
(Some ideas for compositions.)
(A thumbnail sketch of my decided composition.)
For my composition I chose three objects, the piece of wood (which I had in a earlier exercise), a skull (it isn't real) and the corner of the base of a large candlestick. With a strong light coming from the right, positioned behind the candlestick, so not much light fell on it and the strongest light was on the wood and the skull.
Loosely sketched in the shapes with white chalk on my blue support.
Started putting in darks (using the Chinese brush) in black ink watered down, because I still wasn't entirely shore of the shapes.
Now I really started hatching with pure ink.
Put in some more highlights.
Darkened the back of the wood with lots of cross-hatching.
I quite like this picture.
I feel this picture would look better without so much white.
The brightly lit side of the bit of wood is ill defined. I also, see now that the candlestick is somewhat wonky.
I should have looked for inspiration from masters of line and cross-hatching, like Albrecht Dürer (a great favourite of mine,)...I am always so keen to get drawing I forget to look at artists I could learn from before starting.
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