Hello to all out there I few days ago, I posted my first Jeff Watts effort, and it was okay. But his work was in charcoal and I had never worked in charcoal, so I completed mine in HB/2B/8B and posted it. I then wanted to do the assignment again but in charcoal but it did not work out. It was taking to long, I used only a soft, med, and hard 'pencil' but i need a lot of more practice using charcoal before I should continue. Anyway. What I would like to ask of you folks if anyone has a great or even good beginners charcoal piece that I could work on? Any and all suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks

Well, Here is the first attempt at the Jeff Watts Skull. I used a HB, 2B, and 8B pencil. I wanted to use pencil first because I have never used charcoal before. Now I am going to redo the skull but this time I am going to use use 3 charcoal pencils, a hard, med, and a soft one. I am so new at this that I had to look up how to sharpen the charcoal pencils with an X-Acto blade. This could be fun or a disaster:(

Good Morning to All, This was more challenging then I thought it would be, also I made the sketch a little smaller than I wanted to. Anyway, here is the latest in the Edgeworth collection

Well, its been a few days since I have posted anything, because this one was a tough one for me. As I mentioned before, I recently picked up the pencil again after being away for from it for 3 decades. This is about the 5th draw and redraw of the hand and arm. I am more or less back to where I was, and now need to advance and grow in my work. I believe this course will help with this goal. On to Robot Boy

Yet another masterpiece from the House of "Edgeworth" No not really just a barely okay Penguin that was a pain to complete. I would like to add move to him (her?) but that is not the point of the exercise.. Also the Penguin, like the camel (that is Joe to you old people) is one of the last things in the world that I would pick to draw, so this is fun. Thanks for the exercise and I appreciate any feedback. Next is the hand, which should be a fun challenge:)

If I understood the rules these should be pieces that are CSI only.

here are my solutions. feedback welcome!

Captain Skull has been posted and he was a lot harder than I thought. but after two tries ( is that spelled correct) I got it correct enough, so I would not throw myself off the roof top. Please do comment, I am old enough to take the hits.. I will start on the next new project tomorrow, any and all advise is appreciated.

Happy New Year to All, Finally got the Camel finish, this was a little challenge for me, and I am very slow. So now I am onto Captain Skull and we will see how that comes out

Hello, Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to Everyone I want to have this completed earlier and posted before now but .. so I am late on all account I will post the boot and move on to the next assignment. Any comments, hints or suggestions from anyone would be great.