Chess piece

Hello, my fellow bloggers, I'm going to explain the process of drawing my chess piece.
This project was based on still life, and we drew chess pieces and tried to make them look as realistic as we could by drawing the chess piece, adding in certain lines, and shading in the correct areas. I would say that I added proportion by making my chess piece bigger in the drawing then the actual chess piece that I was looking at to draw this, and adding different sized lines for the background. I added different values not only on my focal point (chess piece) but also in the background, I needed a way to make none of the same shades connect, so I used six different shades (lights and darks) on the background.  For pattern, rhythm, and movement I really tried to focus on the background because I based it on a spider web. The different directions and shading of the lines gives it that pattern it needs. It also has rhythm and movement because the different directions of the lines in the background make it interesting, they produce rhythm because I tried to make them look all connected like a real spider web, and i repeated the lines, the direction of the lines and the different shading of the lines. For movement I made sure that it wasn't boring and that people weren't going to be looking at one thing, I did that by moving the chess piece off to the left side and making some of the background lines look like they were coming out of the chess piece, and they different shades helps leads your eyes to other places on the picture.
I have many ranges of value throughout this drawing, i went from really light, (which is pretty much white) to light, to grey to dark to really dark (Which is pretty much black). i put my chess piece off to the left and slightly in the top part of the paper, i made sure my chess piece was not in the middle, because thats just boring and life less, and no one is going to want to look at my art if its life less boring and just plain out original. my focal point is the chess piece, and the background really helps my chess piece stand out because of the line direction and the shading, for example look how the lines are coming out of the focal point and the other lines are attached to those specific lines going in a diagonal direction. Well thats what i did with my time, and my chess piece (which is a bishop), so thanks for reading and checking out my blog.