Avocado's

You may look at the first two images and think that they are disgusting. However I find them so interesting. The object is just a plain avocado, how when I turned the flash on it completely changed the texture and colour of the skin, leaving the deep purpley black to be highlighted by the bright white flash. It allowed the pure green to shine through with the cracked pieces of skin. I really like this and wanted to use different mediums to draw it in my sketchbook with. I first started with colour pencils, something that I haven't been used to drawing with. It did not go well. I couldn't shade or define the split properly. So I create a light brown shape that was filled with green. I actually like how the green turned out, I started by shading a base of green and the idea was too eventually added light colours creating more of a contrast between the brown. However, when doing this some of the inside green avocado fell out on my page. As much as I tried to get rid of it, the stain just would not go away. So I made the best of the situation and just added more. I really like how this dried, the mixture became texture and gave lots more detail to the drawing. To conclude, I have mixed feelings with how this piece turned out, I dislike the brown edge but adore the green textured centre. The second piece create was done in charcoal. I decided to use charcoal because it allows you to create tonal value easily. I am happy with this piece, I feel I learnt from the previous piece so I made the edges a lot darker. I was also able to created the reflection from the flash therefore it made the drawing more realistic. The small piece in the top left hand corner of the page was of the structured outside to the vegetable. I did created it using pen, I don't really like this as I feel it doesn't really look anything like what I was drawing.