Artists & Illustrators

16 GO TO WORK on an egg!

THE BENEFITS

For this challenge, especially in these difficult times, I wanted to find a subject that was readily accessible to all of us: eggs.

During this task you will learn selection, cropping with a viewfinder, preliminary sketches to aid composition, controlling edges, building form through values, and the order of work to completion.

THE PROCESS

From hope, purity and fertility, to the broken dreams of a cracked shell, there is a lot

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