Texture

Object 1 – Wire Wool

Wire wool was quite hard to draw. Sharp edges, shade, reflection and shine are all through the object. I tried differend grades of pencil and drawing pens. Think the 5H pencil may be best?

Object 2 – Wooden xmas tree

This small xmas tree is refined, smoothed and machined, except for base, which still has bark on it.

Pencil seemed the best medium for this. I used a hard pencil – making sparse, refined lines for the machined areas. I used soft, dark pencil for the bark – to created ragged lines and show rugged contrast.

Object 3 – Woven coarse fabric

The most effective method I tried was using drawing pens to create fine lines and show actual weaving of these lines (in the middle of the images below). I then smudged charcoal over the top of the lines to create a feeling of less-defined cloth.

Object 4 – Ceramic Bowl with raised pimples

The raised pimples were hard to re-create. Just drawing round circles did not work – too flat. I then tried to draw 3D circles. Thick pen one side of the circle, thin pen the other side. This seemed to work better. I then swept and smudged charcoal over the pimples to give an impression of a surface. I then dragged an eraser thought parts of the charcoal to show shine of the ceramic surface. This was a better effect. To improve the image I would need to be more mathematical with drawing the circles, i.e. size and positioning.