Charcoal

I haven't updated in forever, so I'm taking advantage of being sick to upload some recent drawings. We've started working with charcoal, which is one of my favorite tools for drawing. These were done on large paper, so please excuse the digital photos; I did not want to deal with charcoal dust all over the scanner, nor did I want to deal with stitching the pictures together from multiple scans.


The first one is more of a "finished" drawing. I'm pretty pleased with it, I just need to work on firming up the geometry here and there, which I'll do when I'm over this cold/flu whatever it is.


The second drawing is a quick study of a still life arrangement. I like the way charcoal allows you to spread value over larger areas quickly, giving it a more painterly feel.

Other than that, I'm pretty sick. Don't play ookie mouth with me.