A pen drawing focusing on contours, hatched shading to unify the deisgn and cross hatching to build up darks.

Using pen, pencil, coloured pencil and watercolour wash design a pattern of pumpkins. Then build up a textured background followed by a black ink wash to reveal the fruits.

Draw some marbles using graphite of different grades to represent the tonal scaffolding. Next build up the coloured structure on top. Slow and steady layers of pencil work.

Use some soft pencils to develop this representation of some vessles. Use shading direction and a free form beginning to create the effect of solid and curved objects

charcoal drawing of a face in profile. Explore the proportions, contours and shading in this exercise.

Using three primary colours draw a face to discover the different planes and shapes involved.

Use charcoal to draw this sculpture from Sienna. No liner wok to start just blocks of tone. See the figures appear.

draw a horse with charcoal using negative spaces to find the shape.

Using a liners and textural approach to describing form make an energetic tree drawing with pens. please note the early part of the recording is just chatting. the lesson starts a little later

Inspired by a drawing by the renaissance artist Canozzi make a pen and wash drawing of a face.

have a look at the spaces between objects to help your understanding of drawing. Here some tulips are the inspiration.