5.1 Participation and Discussion: Analysis

• Description: Now that you have had a chance to experiment with various drawing media, discuss the pros and cons of working with pencil and pen and ink.

• Answer: My preference for drawing media is pencil because I have the ability to erase something if I happen to see mistakes on my drawing that are not how I wanted it to turn out. With ink pen, however, there is more line weight variation included except I cannot erase it and redo it from scratch. Sometimes, when using pencil for tonal drawing, the techniques I have used in this class are easy to remember but, difficult when doing it by hand. For instance, my drawings would sometimes get smudged when using all my fingers to create a realistic effect of a living room rendering. With cross - hatching and hatching alone, the effects on making it look like a real portrait would be minimal without the intricate details.