The first step towards creating my digital grisaille (which is a style of monochrome painting) was creating an analog drawing on paper with charcoal. After sketching the general proportions, I identified each shadow and light mass within my reference model and used compressed charcoal to fill in the shadows. We had freedom with the background, so I chose to incorporate both light and shadows to elevate the pragnanz\/closure within my figures. In this practice of developing such a high contrast drawing, I realized how visually important the Gestalt principles can be in a body of work, while still paying attention to the hardness and softness of certain lines and shadows. When it came to creating the final composition on Photoshop, my focus was on making my layout as interesting as possible while still showing the process from drawing to digitalization. Centering the composition around an industrial and futuristic aesthetic, I incorporated elements of perspective and text to produce a layout that I was satisfied with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":16408,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16407","student-work","type-student-work","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-drawing-imaging"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n