Reinforcing skills - Still Life with a Skull / Plaster Head

The final task of term 1 is an understanding of head construction with all fundamentals that we have learned so far used in one piece. I have a lot of fun drawing skull from the last task, so I decided to choose the setup with a skull and cloth.

Process

I started with a small thumbnail to get the composition of the setting and draw sketching out the rough shapes and position of the objects.

Adding in weight and base value, starting with the darkest object.

shading the book and the flower with darkest value

start rendering the skull and give light base shading for the cloth to get the mid tone

I erase some parts of the shading to create the folds of the cloth and add more details to the leaves

Final Piece

I was struggling with the texture of the clothes as it was a yarn material with patterns. When I try to make the crochet pattern, it came out weird. So, I decided to make it an entirely new cloth type. I dislike how the clothes turn out as the material didn't match the reference at all but the shading of the flowers and skull makes it acceptable. I will make more studies on types of cloth material for my future project.