Up-Close Abstract

For this project, we were assigned to chose an object to draw up close with colored pencils, chalk pastels, or oil pastels. I chose to draw a piece of sushi, and utilize the colored pencils on black paper. I like the way the use of black paper turned out, because I was able to use a lot of value and detail to each part of the sushi. I did not, however, like the rice. i think this was mainly because  it didn't come out the way it was in my head. It was also hard for me to ad value to the grains of rice because each grain is the same color for the most part and that kind of threw me off as to where to have shadows and which shade of black or brown to use to add darkness. It was also difficult because I wasn't able to add a seperate color as the highlight. Since the rice is already white, I had to rely on shadows to make them three dimension. Overall, I liked this project a lot because I got to use the prismacolors on black paper, which was a new experience and I was able to try new techniques on a bigger, more detailed scale.