Deer Skull Sketch
Reference Picture
Process
For this sketch, I was inspired by the master artist Georgia O'Keefe with her interesting deer/ cattle skulls. I have attempted skulls a few times prior to this, but only with white colored pencil or charcoal and black matte board. I wanted to branch out and try a new medium that I haven't had much practice with, graphite. I decided to go with a few different levels of graphite, such as 2B, 4B, 2H, and etc. I tried out all of the shades in my sketch book to decide where and when to use them on the skull. I then used pictures from one of the Georgia O'Keefe books in the classroom to get the proportions and placements correctly. I then went with my own style to create the line-work on the skull. I then took each lined section one-by-one to shade and get the correct values I was looking for. I spent lots of time trying to get very contrasting values with the graphite, such as the dark edges and lines versus the very light areas surrounding those edges.
Judgment
I really like the way this sketch turned out and appreciate the time I took to get the correct values I wanted. The point to improve would be trying this out on matte board and blowing up the scale or size. A small error I see with the skull itself are the horns; I wasn't getting the right values and shading on them like I usually can with the white colored pencil and black matte board. I would also need to study more reference pictures to improve on my proportions with the skull, along with the horns. Otherwise, I am very impressed with my first attempt working in the medium of graphite.
Final Sketch
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