Basic Drawing Final Assignment

For the final assignment for Basic Drawing, I had to do an A2 sized poster based on a topic of my choice. I chose to do based on the series of music videos from Fall Out Boys, called The Young Blood Chronicles. Then I was to come up with 5 elements to put into this poster. Mine was instruments, insanity, which I used the main character's eyes to symbolize, blood, Hell and Heaven. After some sketches, I settled on one idea and started my actual drawing.


I started off with sketching out the eye.


Then I went into more details and shading.


I tried making things darker but then realized the drawing was still too light.


So, instead of carrying on with pencils, I went straight into it with charcoal.


It was really fun playing around with charcoal and smudging. It's also very rewarding to see the drawing getting darker by the minute.



I thought I was done, until I realized that I forgot to add in the blood for the bottom lid.


So I went ahead and did more touch ups as best as I could with the frame in the way. I made the blood thicker because the top frame cropped out quite a lot of it. In the end, I am really happy with my finally product. It was my first time trying charcoal and it turned out quite well. I had a lot of fun doing this and I might try to make more artworks at home with charcoal.