2 Hands Interacting
For this particular project, I got my inspiration from an opening of the anime Charlotte which had many unique visual images halfway through it. This included two hands being separated by shattered glass. So I decided to then draw some cracked glass and draw two hands. While making it, I also then decided that I wanted one hand to be distorted by the cracked glass while the other was not, which turned out to become my favorite part as it was very interesting trying to distort the hand through the glass depending on how I saw the glass and what it would do to the hand. Using techniques of shading with a tortillion and a no.4 pencil used in the last project, I was able to replicate the effect of a light coming from behind one hand while the other distorted one was in darkness. I also used pictures of my hands with this same lighting as templates for how I should shade them. With the shading I think I was able to capture a desperate look or a kind of hopeful kind of feeling. Something interesting as well was that, when showed to my friends, people felt differently about the photo depending on the angle. They saw "desperate" when looked as shown in the picture above, but when showed backwards they saw a more "romantic" feeling.
Knot
This was another small project for using values, In this particular one we were drawing a foam knot and adding value. I decided to add a hand with value as an extra step for myself.