Progress on the Harnett

Tonight I started and finished the flute. I then started work on the pipe which needs a lot of help. That will be finished next week.

I like how the flute turned out. Very realistic. Sometimes when I'm drawing I instinctively know what to do and can get in the grove. That's what happened when drawing the flute. As I started the pipe I realized that I was out of my grove and should have just stopped for the night.

I'm hungry, time to go eat some cereal.

Next Project - Books and stuff

So this is my next drawing exercise. It's a picture with books, a lamp, sheet music etc. I'm posting what I have so far because it's going to take me a while to finish it. 

The interesting thing (one of many) that I've learned through this class is that you never forsake the rules. The picture that you're copying may have a shadow on a certain part of it, but if it doesn't fall into the rules of drawing you don't draw it. So with this picture I outlined all the objects in the given picture, but from there I don't really need to look at the picture. I just follow the rules of shading.