Charcoal and pastel.

Resource One and The Magic of Drawing. The tutor guarantees he can teach anyone to draw with exercises that trick the brain. Drawing upside down, drawing with the left hand, drawing without looking at the paper, drawing with white crayon then revealing the results with dye....fabulous fun. The chap on the left was a 3rd attempt at drawing from a photocopy and understanding tone, the drawing prior to this one was better except that the tone wasn't right between his head and background...this one is. The guy on the right is an exercise to use white pastel on a midtone background and supplementing with charcoal. I reckon I did it the other way around and didn't allow the brown paper to do some of the work....I still like it though and at the end of the day that's what counts. This was a 2nd attempt at doing him so I'm pleased.

I start painting exercises tomorrow, yay!