2 Value Still Life

So for this assignment we had to draw a still life in only 2 values, black and white. The key to this assignment was making a balanced composition. However, we now had two things to pay attention to. One was the rule of thirds. The other was the ratio of black to white and the way the black shapes lined up with each other. This is the composition I ultimately settled on.

First I had to draw out the composition in charcoal:

Then I had to make the same composition, except we had to use cut paper, in this case, black paper pasted on white paper: