No Staples book first drawings

Keys

 Above is the first sheet of all of my completed drawings. As a topic, I thought keys. They are all generically the same, therefore quite easy to draw quite a few times. I enjoyed my keys topic, there are quite a few interesting key designs, like the bird-looking one for example. I drew these keys by looking up images of them on Pinterest, a very useful site for searching for images. I created my own board on Pinterest specifically for keys and then picked my favourites, and these are the ones I ended up with. I tried to a pick a variety of interest ones and some more simplistic ones, in order to get a good effect on my no staples book, and not have it be too complicated or too simple.

Above is one of my keys that I drew. This has to be one of my favourites. I hadn't tried drawing with a fineliner before, and I was pleased with the outcome. I attempted some shading around the outside of the key that didn't turn out too well, but gives the key a slight 3-D affect.

 I used a couple of pens to draw all of these keys. The one on the left in the image above is a ballpoint liquid gel-pen and on the right is a fine-liner.

The key above is probably my top favourite out of all the ones I drew. I didn't quite manage to capture the intricacy of the original unfortunately. I gave this key a shadow, which works well enough, but I didn't shadow all of the edges. I drew this key with a gel-pen, which I used for most of the drawings.