Wekk 17 - Virtual Tour – The Natural History Museum

 For this task, we had to take a virtual tour of a museum, find dome interesting skulls or skeleton, make some preparatory sketches them move to the final piece.

After taking the tour, I was able to find some specimens that caught my eye and made some quick sketches.

For these sketches, I have used a 2B pencil and a white one. I ended up choosing the last sketch and I moved on to the final piece.

I started with the sketch, trying to refine it as much as possible and get right the overall shape.

After that, I used some graphite powder to get a nice starting shade and also determinate the tonal value of the object, making sure to erase the highlights. 

The next step was starting the shading process, which was not difficult at all, but it took a long time since the skull was quite detailed.

In order to make the highlights more visible and pop out, I ended up giving the skull a darker background.

I am very happy with the final result, and since this was the first time drawing a skull, I think I did a great job.

For the shading I used a variety of pencils: starting with an F, an HB and a B for the highlighted parts, ending with a 2B, a 4B, and an 8B for the darker ones.