Glass drawing with pastels

In this session on the 8/10/14, I had to draw glass bottles arranged on a plinth.  The materials I used were black charcoal, whitle chalk, and light gree, dark green and yellow pastels.  Manila paper and a 4B pencil.  The techniques I used were shading, shape and form,colour, texture, tone,  composition, proportion, perspective, ellipse, scale and smudging.  I really enjoyed using charcoals and pastels in this session adm was quite pleased with the tone and shading of my work.  The area I feel I could improve on is the ellipse technique.  To extend my skills I will research different ways of using pastels and practice drawing ellipse.  

     

Research 

I chose the above two pictures as I liked how they were just glass object.  I like how well they have managed to give the impression of shinny, streak free, smooth glass.  I especially like how the top picture shows different shaped glass objects.

 

I liked this drawing as the artists has been a little less subtle with the highlights in the glass and just adding little shimmers of white to show the shine.  

I chose this drawing as I like how it gives the impression of movement.  I think the artist has done a brilliant job making the water look clear but visible by using charcoal and white pastel for different tones, highlights and shading.  I would like to use this style and technique in my work in the future.  

I think this drawing is amazing.  I love how the artist has used white pastel on the bottom of the polar bear to give the impression that the light has gone thought the glass and it hitting the surface it's stood on.  I also love how different shades and tones have been used to show all the different angles and that the polar bear has a textured glass surface.  The blackness of the nose and eyes are bold and stand out and also show a more smooth texture compared to the body.  I think that the style and technique the artists has used here is something I will definitely remember for future drawings.