Another figure drawing

This is a 20 minute figure drawing of Kit (5 minute drawing of her below) done on tone paper with red and white charcoal pencils.

Tree Studies

For my required sketchbook for John Clapp's Intro to Illustration class, I tried a few different approaches to drawing trees, since drawing trees was something that was always hard for me before

This is just drawing the shadow shapes, like the self portrait.


I guess this is a cross between line drawing and tonal drawing. Not sure what it is, but I am content with the way it looks.


This is a semi-blind contour drawing of a small piece of some kind of fir tree.


This is a line drawing done in brushpen. Brushpen is fun because it allows you to be loose and "artistic" =).