For this exercise I decided on the word shoe. I decided to draw a high heel shoe – I thought it had a lot of interesting shapes compared to my flatter shoes. I made these initial sketches in my sketchbook until I got a shape I was happy with (drawing on far right) – I thought his one I had finally got the proportions right.

I moved on to the final drawing and I drew the heel. I used pencils, eraser and a paper stump to create the image – my paper didn’t hold the pencil very well and although this made it quite easy to blend it made it hard to build upon. I am happy with the drawing overall, I am happy with the use of pencil but when I look back at the drawing now I think using more contrast could have been more effective in the final drawing. I think more contrast between the light and dark would help create more dimension in the image.

When I had finished the drawing I wanted to experiment a little and decided to photocopy the drawing. The photographs below are what came out. I think this is really interesting because it does exaggerate those areas of light and dark and where you can’t see line it gives more of a suggestion of the form rather than the typical outline. I do actually quite like the effect of the photocopy.

One one of the photocopies I decided to use fineliner to outline and let the copy ‘be’ the shading. I like the way this image turned out – this has given me some ideas going forward how I could use collage in my work. The collage and experimentation doesn’t have to be the main feature of a drawing – this is proven here where I have created a more ‘realistic’ drawing but still been able to play with it.