Being (art)schooled #3: Volume and Depth through Charcoal

Week #3, originally uploaded by Gavatron.

Another Thursday night, another drawing lesson.

This week we had another still-life to complete, after a little demo on creating volume and depth. Nice to get the refresher and spend some more time actually looking at how shadows are cast and light is reflected on different objects.

This work is quite obviously unfinished, but I do like the volume I created even so.

My only real problem was with the natural charcoal–I had a hard time getting it to “stick” on the cartridge paper. Part of the reason the piece is so light.