Reference photos

These pictures are not colour enhanced or leveled in anyway. I have cropped some of them. Feel free to use them if you like. Just credit back to me.

Graphite vs Charcoal

I like the drama of tone in charcoals vs the subtlety of graphite. Here is a sketch from my notebook done in pencil

I do 2 or 3 a day. This is the model for the charcoal in the earlier post.

More on the figure

I like the incomplete image of this one as well as the strokes. Don’t like the overall tone. I think it lacks range and looks flat.