After browsing through the virtual British Museum tour, I chose to create a study of a gold, griffin-headed armlet from ancient Iran. I wanted to practice rendering metallic objects so found this was a good opportunity to do so. I strongly aimed to get a good contrast between the light and dark areas in order to get a good metallic read.
I was a bit cautious when it came to
adding tone to this piece mainly because there were many intricate details on
the griffin head portion of the armlet (the scales and feathers). I had to
decide how to portray them to keep the overall look accurate but also not
overwhelming. I was worried by adding too much detail the piece could end up
looking quite flat. I tackled this by adding darker areas of tone to the small
pockets within the scales and then overlaying gradual shifting tones in a
uniform manner over the top (rather than shading around each individual portion).
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