For my Design Foundation class, I was asked to find a high contrast black and white image and recreate it twice - once in soft pencil, to demonstrate an understanding of value created purely through shading, and once in ink to demonstrate an understanding of value created purely through lines. I chose an image of one of my favorite animals, the Great Blue Heron. 

 

For this I gathered my necessary materials

-Drawing pencils of varying hardness

-Micron drawing pens

-various sheets of paper

-a black and white photo of a blue heron. 

 

I first created a series of small thumbnails - including one of a Peregrine Falcon before I decided against using that bird - and then larger thumbnails, one each for the shading and line aspect of the project. Finally created full-size mockups of each picture. 

 

 

In my final work I put together all the different ways I tried portrayng the light values of my Heron into a finished product that I considered to be my best attempt thus far. 

 

I considered my final output to be a successful rendering of a blue heron in two different value styles while not sacrificing the look of the finished compostion.