Portfolio Entry Five

Another charcoal image, this time more detailed, with a stronger impression of shadow and a better understanding of light than previous images. The image has been composed with the main focal item, the pumpkin, placed centrally. The pumpkin is made focal by being large and highlighted, with edges falling along vertical thirds of the image and the implied bottom of the pumpkin resting along a horizontal third. Shadow plays a role throughout the image, the fruits leave shadows on the ground, but also on one another such as on the apples. You can see that the main light source from the right makes the pumpkin leave a sharp well defined shadow on the orange to the far left, but also more general lighting sources leaves the orange in front casting a shadow onto the pumpkin as well as the pumpkin leaving a shadow on it. The pumpkin also causes faint shadows on the apples to the other side of it.  Though the fruit on the left of the image are smaller and few than those on the right, the dark shadows balance it out acting like another item in the arrangement. As well as that the far left orange is spaced away from the group slightly to avoid the image feeling to heavily leaning right.