Week Four - #1

This is where I’m at in my progress with making my digital etching sketch. It’s primarily what I worked on this week. It has been a lot of trial and error figuring out the details of shading in an etch because you need to shade with texture, not actual shading. As you can see, I tried to start to fill in the mountain on the left but I realized I wasn’t going to do any solid colors, so I began shading the mountain on the right with lines instead. The sky was a major challenge that I spent an entire day on. I haven’t finished it but getting my iPad “brush” strokes to look like clouds was a trial and error and ultimately required a bit of stylizing and a departure from the realism I’m used to.