Drawing -- Fabric

Our professor prepared a piece of black and white striped fabric, draped and mounted to a board. Our assignment was to draw it in charcoal on white paper with a toned background and in a 10" by 20" format. When I did it in class my toned background ended up so dark that when I tried to lighten it for the white stripes, I could not get it light enough. I had to do the drawing over, from scratch, outside of class, without being able to look at the actual fabric. In spite of that (or perhaps because of it ;^) the final drawing turned out very good. This is my best work for the semester.

Drawing -- Still Life with Dinosaur

Our assignment was to select a number of black and white objects, compose them and then draw them on a toned background. We used charcoal on newsprint. We used the charcoal to establish an even tone across all of the paper and then darkened and lightened portions to complete our drawing. This was practice for the following (fabric) assignment.