1. What challenges did I face and how did I respond? While working it was difficult to show the different values in the objects in front of one another. At first the skull and the tea kettle were the same shade, but I pushed my darks and worked on my shadows.
2. How did you use unique ideas? I was drawing from life so I wasn't left much room to be creative, but I did add and take away from what I saw to make an interesting picture. In the objects set up there was a pot and more flowers in the picture, but I decided to draw the bottle top instead.
3. Did you learn new techniques? Although I have worked with pencil before, this project gave me a chance to work on smoothly blending my values.