Marks Made Drawing

Recently in class, we've been focused on the use of shading and how different materials affect this. First, we all had very large piece of paper and took every material in the room that made 2-D black or white marks. We experimented with the different effects each had and what would happen when they were combined. After this, the papers were cut up so each different thing we tried was its own piece of paper. All of these shapes were combined in to a pile where the whole class could see them. The assignment resulting from this was that each person created an idea and took two of these to begin with. The limitations were that nothing could be edited or marked, only cut and glued on to a sheet of paper. Once the rules were established, we were allowed unlimited sheets of the designed paper and plain gray, black, or white paper. I ended up creating a picture of a stormy ocean. The assignment from there was to draw the image I just created, but with only pencils. Imaginably, this is a challenge. It doesn't look drawings I have done in the past, mostly because this isn't based off of reality, but of a collage. There are random chunks that are different shades then the others with no blending because of the original picture. It looks strange if the viewer doesn't know where it was based off of. I am surprised at how much due to shading the focus changed from the wave in the original picture to the birds in the sketch.