Process:

The outline of the rope design was first drawn on very softly using a H pencil. After a 2B pencil was used to draw rope with more certainty, then finalised by tracing over with a 6B pencil to create the bold lines. This method of using two different pencils before finalising the line was used to avoid "broken" lines by increasing the certainty of line placement. The 2B pencil was used for hatching, and the 6B pencil was used to further shade the hatching that was close to the lines.

Reflection:

When first deciding how I was going to document the portrayal of time passing, I turned to areas of my life for inspiration. As a current Engineering student, stresses and strains are essential to understand. As I have had to constantly calculate maximum strains on objects, I thought it would be cool to visually represent these types of problems. In this instance, a rope undergoing a strain large enough that it tares and breaks over a period of time (within 5 days). 

Throughout my images, I attempted within my abilities to keep the drawings of the rope as realistic as possible in order to stay consistent with the styles and techniques used for image documentation. The drawing technique of hatching was used to represent the fibres of the rope, creating texture and realism. The line quality within the images are "bold" lines, which I purposely used to communicate certainty of line placement and again utilising image documentation techniques.

However, I believe my line quality could be more consistent between the five images, as over each image the thickness of my lines (boldness) gradually increased.