StardustLarva's Visual Explorations

[StardustLarva]

By your suggestion, I've been working on simple shapes, starting with spheres. I have been doing it in pen and ink, which I've recently started using. I can see why they look three-dimensional from the images and objects I've been observing, but I'm struggling to render sufficiently. Any tips?

(The top left one was done from imagination, the other two from a not-so-spherical polystyrene ball.)



Also, here's an illustration I did to try out my new pen and ink set: