Day sixty-four of The 100 Day Project for 2021.
I took this photo of a blown lightbulb back in February but only felt confident giving it a shot (and knowing I had the time) last night.
I, foolishly, thought I'd made a mess of the bottom-left section of the base. So I corrected it. But, thinking back to what it initially looked like, I should have left it as it was.
I felt I drew the original base too wide. So I thinned it slightly. Though it was probably acceptable at either width.
The bulb is leaning a little to the right, but not offensively so. It doesn't feel like it would fall over.
The filament and supply wires possibly look even more like the \0/ emoji than the photograph did. Though I think my sketch makes the overall look more robotic than the original, oddly. Silly anthropomorphism!
This was quite a satisfying draw.
The original sketch was drawn with a 4H pencil. I traced over the base and shaded it with a 6B pencil. I used a 3B pencil to draw over and/or add shading to other darker elements, including the shadow on the table. The shadowed parts of the glass I went over with an HB pencil. And then, the lighter outlines and the filament were drawn over more heavily with my 4H pencil.