Drawing Challenge

1) How do new drawing and shading techniques improve your drawing skills overall? Why?

Trying a new shading technique means you have to pay attention to the details and closer attention to where lights and darks are. It kinda makes you think things in a different way, sort of reverse of what you're used to-you have to colour where you normally wouldn't to make highlights and not touch areas where it's supposed to be dark for shadows since the paper is already black. 

2) What did you find most challenging about this shading project, in comparison to regular pencil drawings? What was most fun about it?

Any type of shading I love-graphite, digital, pen, pen and ink, coloured pencils . . . White on black.

It was a lot of fun to work on this project but, about halfway, I was getting kinda fed up with it-I wasn't liking how it was looking, worried that it'd look to plain or boring, and I was tired/sick/grumpy.

The parts that were the most fun were the moss on the bark and the bark. Figuring how to do the leaves/leaf silhouettes so that they actually resembled leaves was a challenge, too.