Shadows and Tonal Values

The focus of this drawing is shadows and tonal values, there was much time spent on this drawing hence the amount of detail put into it. The most obvious use of shadows, is at the bottom of the piece where the shadows of the railings cross one another. There are a large variety of tones in the drawing, and due to the centralised nature of the vantage point used to capture the image most of the dark tones are towards the middle. This creates a large contrast between the centre of the piece and the the outer rim of it. The  However, in terms of tone, the drawing adheres to the rule of thirds, as there are a few dark tones on either side of the central third. This drawing is perfect and has its faults mostly in that the orthogonal lines do not match up to one another due to a perspective error as the right side of the image is slightly bigger proportionally. Another error is that the small windows do not match up with the large windows at the top of the image. The elephant statue has slight impressionistic techniques to it, which help it stand out.