Realistic Sketching

Realistic sketching involves a lot of focus and patience. For the past 3 weeks in our year 2 Cyber Arts class we practiced sketching various skulls and poses. We received a project in which we draw still-life as realistic as possible. A method that i learned to make sketches realistic was to lightly do a contour sketch and add very light shades till it goes as dark as possible from a HB pencil to a 6B. This method is hard because it involves a lot of time and patience. You have to be precise with your movements in order to prevent yourself from smudging the graphite on the paper. The goal was to make a clean realistic sketch and i feel that my work could have been improved. If i had to redo it, i would have focused more on the light shades and the proportions of the images. In the end I feel that i had done a pretty good job and was impressed with how realistic i could make an image look like.