I have never had the opportunity to set up my own still life when drawing from life before so I was very excited about what I would do and choose my subject for this project. I had seen how a few of my classmates had drawn from the skeleton for our last assignment and I thought that drawing from the animal skull could be an interesting challenge for me. I came in one night and set up the skull, black drape, and sheer fabric and took many photographs from different angles. I am very proud of how the skull came out and feel it is a great improvement from my last project. One challenge I faced was that I was unsure how I would draw the white fabric to look semi-transparent. I used charcoal sticks and pencils for the skull, background, and black fabric, but decided to use a graphite stick for the white fabric. I have not used graphite before this project so I was somewhat apprehensive however I am content with how it turned out and the lighter shade of the graphite really helped to give the illusion that the white fabric is actually mesh. I was also debating whether or not to fill in the background of the drawing with all black because I was worried that the black fabric would fall back and blend in but I am glad that I did include the background because it makes the skull and fabrics pop.
