Sitting next to someone everyday in art who is amazing with pen and ink really makes you want to try it yourself. So, to try pen and ink again, I decided to use this medium for the nature vs mechanical project. All throughout the tree in the foreground there are gears and tubing and wiring to show how the natural trees can also be mechanical. It shows how only the inside of the trunk/thicker part of the tree and the branches are mechanical, almost like every tree is secretly mechanical inside. As for the background, the trees stretch out all the way to the horizon, with a sky that becomes darker as you look up. Completing this project made me feel more confident in my pen work and how to use hatching the get the shadings of the shadows and darker areas.