Candle stand chiaroscuro

Glasswares Chiaroscuro

Exploring more with Chiaroscuro..

Paper used: 18"x24" cold-press watercolor paper
Materials: round and square compressed charcoals, white charcoal, pink pearl eraser and kneaded eraser

Chiaroscuro -- Reflective Objects

This was a challenging one due to the difficulty in finding different shapes of reflections formed on the surface of objects. Once you get the light and shadow shapes properly with correct value/shade then you can make it look great.

It's done on a 18"x24" cold-press watercolor paper with square and round compressed charcoals, pink pearl eraser, kneaded eraser and white charcoal.

Quick Chiaroscuro -- Doggy

The thought of having more fun with chiaroscuro led me to do this work. It was really interesting even though it does not have more ranges of value/shades. Being a quick sketch it was satisfying for me.

It is done on a 9"x12" cold-press watercolor paper with square compressed charcoal, white charcoal and pink pearl eraser.

Chiaroscuro with White Charcoal

Here I used white charcoal to highlight the bright areas. Also I tried to give more contrast for objects closer to me and I feel this created a very appealing visual effect of three dimensionality.
I am impressed with the depth of values I am getting with this technique.

I did this on a 18"x24" cold-press watercolor paper with square compressed charcoal, round compressed charcoal, white charcoal, pink pearl eraser and kneaded eraser.