A study of Richard Zarrins using a willow charcoal stick. I am struggling with fine lines, since my charcoal is not in pencil form I am unsure of how to sharpen it. I also don't really want to waste a lot of product. However, it is unusual and interesting to work with and I would like to continue using willow charcoal in the future, any suggestions on how can I improve at it?

I am back with Isaakovski studies!! Finally done with them. Hand is the first attempt of mine, and it went smoothly. I honestly didn't expect to struggle with the individual foot I had, so choosing the bigger piece, I've decided to skip feet)) Still, I don't know if I have done enough. Some details were too tricky and obviously deliberately chaotic as, for example, the hair. Love the way it is so free, but as I am doing studies I included the overall shape and some strands I found important, as with the left hand, where hair peeks out in between fingers. Hope my work isn't too lacking though.

There is my first study. I created a list of artists that inspire me and fortunately I am of the same era as isaakovsky (Исаковский) on ig. https://www.instagram.com/isaakovsky?igsh=MnI3c2N2bmZnbHV3 I have been following their journey for some time now and it is just inspiring to look at this insane level of details. There is a part (a hand) i did for my study of their pretty old work. I love the flow of lines and it was a struggle to keep up with the dynamics of lineweight which was I believe because of difference in overall hand movements. Lines on these works are usually quite variative, but they mainly use straight lines, visibly enhancing shapes. Curves are also quite sharp in many places, like finger joints.

I found a master I want to study but I am unsure... Richards Zarriņš has just great works but I do not understand if there are really contour lines and not shading. He also did a lot of Ex Libris, there are lines but they are kinda boring as they are all uniform, not sure if it is beneficial

Day 4 of the two weeks Had A LOT of fun drawing my favorite mug and I think it looks good, but I would like to hear some suggestions on how I can improve in the future. this time I went easy on measuring things and lazy on elipses, still I hope that the drawing looks alright and like a mug, not necessarily the exact lineart of the photo

Day 3 A very lazy experience. Couldn't do much today, but still posting. Tomorrow will do better.

Day 2 of the two weeks I think this one turned out better than day 1, but still it feels a little stiff and I kinda don't know what I wanted it to look like. I am used to draw from imagination, so clearly it feels new and different, but it also looks different then my other works. I find it less enjoyable to look at, but the process was fun enough. I think I need to loosen up a little

There is the beginning of 2 weeks when I am building drawing habits. In order to have more motivation and keep the work up it's probably good idea to post every day. There is a juice box, will try something easier to capture next time and build the difficulty up, somehow this box struck as more difficult object. I think my lines are too wonky and they don't seem smooth and unified somehow? The sketch really doesn't capture the complexity imo, I think I did no justice to this interesting box. Is this also a confidence issue or are there some more ways I can fix it? I used some construction methods to capture the bottle, did I maybe stick with making the shape "correct" too much and it the reason my bottle doesn't look interesting or expressive? I did it in a few stages, first pencil layer was just geometric shapes, maybe I went wrong with this step there?

this is what I did for the depth line weight. It took way too much time, but I had no practice with backgrounds for ages. I like how it turned out but I need a comment on how I did and how it turned out.

These are my second attempts. I also changed the lighting angle in the first linework. Not quite sure how I did, so I would be happy to get a comment on the work I did 👀👀