First attempt!

My first master study was on the piece below by Eliza Ivanova and probably bit a little more off than I could chew! I really liked how she was able to show the light not by making the source bright, but by making sure that the features around the light used line weight and dark tones for heavy contrast. Whilst doing this, I tried to 'scribble' some of the 'less important' hair strands and realised as I was doing it that it feels like Eliza very purposefully placed each strand, as opposed to my approach! I tried to use line weight in the absence of shading and colour, but not sure it was terribly effective! But i'm very happy to have had an opportunity to really study a piece in a way I wouldn't have before.

Tried this with Mario mushrooms…reworking lines to try to get them to flow is not always successful but can see how tone and thickness of lines can be used to position the viewer or light source in what starts as a flat image. Not the best subject matter for hierarchy of importance however..

My submission -was not sure on level of detail to go with, but was a fun project!

Definitely struggled with the boots on this one.. perhaps didn't simplify it sufficiently. Also wasn't sure how 'flat' a C and S curve could be so perhaps took more liberties than expected from the assignment. Looking forward to seeing the demo and critique video!