Gesture Drawing – Week 2

My gesture drawing course continued and this week I focused on experimenting with Charcoal as a medium. I had only ever used charcoal before during art class in secondary school and was pleasantly surprised by how freeing I found it to work with. It forced me to work bigger and looser and encouraged me to consider the overall shape of the form, stopping me from honing in on smaller details too early in the process as has often been the case in the past.