This is the chess piece I drew. Our assignment was to make a chess piece which looks realistic, with a background which shows pattern, movement, and rhythm. I think my chess piece is realistic, because I shaded it exactly how I saw it in real life, and can be recognized as a chess piece. The proportions are exact, as well, because though the chess piece looks bigger than the books in comparison, I don't think it's too hard to tell that the chess piece was drawn closer to the human eye, therfore making it seem bigger than it really is.
I think my background shows pattern, in the books. The books show repetion but differ in size and thickness, which also cause rhythm. I think my background shows movement because your eye is drawn from one book on the page, to the others.
This chess piece was drawn from a eye level, and to do so, I had stacked many books atop each other creating a ledge/shelf that reached high enough for me to look straight ahead. I placed my chess piece right above that.
As you can see from the shading on the chess piece and in the books on the background, it was darker on one side, and that was where the light from the lamp, wasn't hitting, and is mostly on the right side. On the left side, there's very little shading, and the parts that do have shading, are very light, and nearly impossible to see. They emphasize the other parts of the chess piece, and stand out against the white in the background, and the white in the chess piece. I made the dark shadows black, not only so they would stand out, but because it looks interesting compared with the light of the background, or so I thought.
In conclusion, I'm really happy with the outcome of my chess piece, but theres always room for improvement. I would love to do something like this again, now that I have some practice with it.
I hope you all enjoyed my art. :)
