This task was about drawing another single natural object, but using stipples and dots as mark making technique.
I drew a peanut in this technique and enlarged the object for better fit on the A4 sheet. I did not manage very well to capture the texture. I did several pencil drawings afterwards, but feel that I got nowhere. This is an object I would like to draw with a light colour on a slightly darker background, I feel this would be more natural.
Peanut attempt in pencil
I couldn’t get myself to give it another try with stipples and dots, but was indeed fascinated by the peanut’s surface pattern. So I tried whether I’d be able to capture this in a pencil drawing. In the first drawing, I tried to draw the entire peanut but realized that there was simply too much detail for my patience. Therefore I did another starting with just a tiny area in the middle of the peanut. The visual impression is exaggerated contrasts resulting in exaggerated depth, but I feel I’ve come somewhat closer to learning accurate representation, even if it’s currently only rudimentary.
What I don’t like about the exercises in this project is that I feel they don’t allow me to do justice to the object. For example the peanut – drawing this with stipples and dots would be about the last thing I wanted to do if left on my own. If anything, I’d draw this in colour and quite large, trying to get the 3-D-texture correctly. Maybe I should do exactly this, to get rid of my inner knot from doing stipples and dots.
Peanut in oil pastel, for a change
Just to loosen my soul a bit from stipples and dots… I drew the peanuts using oil pastel into the A3 sketchbook. It may not be very convincing but nevertheless it was nice to use colours and allow myself some real arm movement over the entire sheet, rather than making tiny dots with millions of millimeter-sized finger movements to arrive at dark shades, hours later.