This series of still life drawings in charcoal, pastel and conte are exercises in value. I set myself to do 100 of these studies, in order to develop a greater understanding of value and how to translate light into drawings and paintings.
Bowl of walnuts, shows how I approached the setting up and completion of many of the earlier version of these drawings.
Click on the images to be taken to a larger version. Many (but not all) of these drawings have blog posts with descriptions of how they were done. Where there isn’t a description, you’ll just be taken to a larger image of the drawing.
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