Table Top Knife

This image is a Swiss army knife in graphite on blank paper. First I took a photo of the real knife because it took me a few days to have this completed and I did not want to worry about shadows and the change of direction in light everyday. Next I started off with the placement and general shape of the knife before I started adding in the detail in certain sections at a time. Since it takes so long to get a good dark colour I had to use many different pencils in the process. I was unable to use all 12 shades but I want to say that I've got at least 8 of the shades in my drawing. My historical influence for this drawing was Edward Weston, a photographer that lived between 1886 and 1958. He was a photographer that liked to do macro photography. His favorite things to take pictures of were statues, shells and peppers. I used him at my influence because I did close-up drawing with my graphite and I was hoping to capture as much detail in my drawings as he did in his photography. In the knife I payed close attention to the lighting just like how he set up his lighting in a certain way for each photo to get the right look/ the right texture that he wanted. My drawing connects to my theme because for this loop I was planning on doing multiple different inanimate objects and for each one they are different in their own way but I am planning on connecting them all together. Since my theme is similarities and differences, for the knife it is a symbol of a tool to me. The reason the knife is similar to my other drawings in this loop will be that it is unique in its own way and may be overlook at times.

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