Week 2 and the challenge this week was to draw into / out of charcoal using a putty rubber. The simple process of freely applying the ground of charcoal to the paper encouraged a looseness and freedom in the mark making. This was a very physical exercise. It was impossible not to use the arm instead of the wrist to produce the first drawing done in 3 minutes (in all these posts the drawing closest to the text is the first drawing of the session). The second drawing (done in about 30 minutes) demonstrates the emphasis upon tone, light & shade, rather than line - a wonderful exercise which steadily leads to solidity in the form. We were given about 45 minutes for the final drawing of the evening - I was quite pleased with this, not least because I had made some attempt to draw the face! Although there are some problems with proportion, I feel that in this drawing I managed to capture the weight and mass of the model as she sat in the chair.