Evaluation of Thursday's texture practical

On Thursday, as well as having to take photos of textures, we had to attempt to draw some different textures, in graphite, from the pictures.

This was the outcome:

In some of these experiments, the contrast of tone is executed well, however I do believe that there is not a great contrast of shape and line. I believe that the types of techniques used to achieve a good texture were: using the sides of the graphite stick to get the similar texture to a brick, the sharpest edge of the graphite stick to get the sharp textures of the tree and I then used a rubber to get the highlights in the wall texture. However, I am not particularly confident in using graphite which is why the textures didn't turn out as I had hoped. If I was going to improve this composition, I would spend more time focusing on trying to get the representations more realistic. Additionally, we had to put some white emulsion on top of the graphite work, and from this I know that I need to become more confident when using this. In some places, the emulsion goes well with the graphite work, for example, in the bottom right corner, the emulsion is layered on top by using the edge of cardboard to give sharp lines in it.


These are some of the textures that I attempted to represent: