Beginning of Drawing and Painting

During this project, I was able to explore the expressive qualities of line in my contour drawing by using different amounts of pressure and different sides of the brush/pen to convey the differences throughout the object.  I didn't represent the positive and negative spaces very well because I only really focused on the positive space.  My goal for next time is to also look at negative space, and figure out ways to express that.  I found the ink most comfortable because it glided over the paper very well and developed clean, smooth lines.  Also, it was really easy to vary the line thickness, color, and shape using the ink, whereas I found it was harder to do so with the pencil.  I was able to master and focus on shape for both of my drawings.  I focused on line quality and line size in my second drawing of the pepper more than I did in the first one, but my main goal was to get a good shape down before I added anything special.