For this piece I chose to use pencil and paper, (8.5 x 11, in Sketchbook). For this piece I decided to do one of my favorite pocket knives, my CRKT Ripple. I mainly choose to keep the focus on shading technique and level of detail/realism.  Because the handle of this knife is metal, reflection of the light source was another thing I had to keep in thought.  

 This piece was to not only show my attention too detail, but also my curiosity and passion for tools that many of us take for granted in our everyday lives. The piece is also intended to not only portray the knife’s aspect of functionality, but it’s beauty through design. Like most tools, this knife has it’s own story and history. Mainly this work tells the story of quality and reliability.

 As many noted in a recent critique, this piece shows the understanding of shading and detail. The one improvement suggested, which I also agreed with was the idea of including some background. Note, it would not be a background that would fill the page, but a background that only gave the viewer enough context and nothing more.

 This photo is an in-process drawing including an observation of to knives, one new, and one old. I choose these two objects for the main purpose of including more than just one object, and additionally due to my interest in their design. As one can see, these two knives have contrasting designs, both of which I hope to convey through crosshatch shading, as well as drawing them in perspective. I plan only on using the one shading technique, however I may decide to take a different approach, such as smudging especially if it will better help convey the objects’ realism.