A couple of my recent figure drawings. I am trying out the three crayon technique on toned paper and am not sure I am doing it correctly or well. I am using up some mi-tientes and tiziano paper cause that's what I have lying around thats toned so the texture is not ideal. First attempt at the three crayon technique. The four figures on blue is 18"x24" canson mi-tientes, conte a paris Sanguine, White, 1710 HB & 2B, and generals white charcoal, about 30-45 minute poses. I intended to do 15-20 minute poses originally but struggled to get the details in that timeframe because I got caught up redoing the heads and hands. The scale became an issue with the materials I was using and caused me some headaches in some areas. Figures do not feel unified: This was done over 4 separate days with one pose added each day after a morning croquis cafe drawing session. My approach slightly changed with each drawing and adding in the generals white charcoal led to a much more intense white than the conte a paris from the first figure. This is one of the reasons the figures feel disjointed and I rolled a kneaded eraser over the figures with generals white to try to unify the values. I was using sanguine on the first figure very minimally and had to add more later to try to unify with the other figures. Instead of doing the 5 minute pose from the Croquis Cafe session I jumped right from 2 minute to these which I think was a mistake. Taking each pose to finish separately is another reason they feel like they aren't unified. Taking each drawing though beginning phases together before moving on would have led to much better result and more coherence in detail. When the top left drawing was added there was workable fixative on the 3 previous figures. Once I sprayed the fixative after the last figure was added all of the marks on it instantly become completely different, but only on this figure. White marks disappeared almost completely which after adding back in got reduced a second time it was sprayed. Possibly too much fixative, too close, or 12 year old can of krylon needs replaced? Overall I learned some valuable lessons I tried to take into the next drawing. Second attempt at three crayon technique: The three figures on tan is 18"x24" Fabriano tiziano paper, Derwent drawing pencils (Chinese White, Sanguine, Ivory Black) and they were 20minute poses. This was my first time ever using Derwent drawing pencils which feel different than charcoal or graphite to me. I liked that they didn't smudge easily but I didn't like the way they interacted with the textured paper and I struggled to put in a large area of consistent tone rather then messy lines.(Paper recommendations welcome) I intentionally left the faces and hands out or reduced details to focus on the poses and experimenting how to approach this technique. I also made the figures much larger this time to avoid getting caught up on small details. These were all done in one sitting from a single model from a croquis cafe session. It has been pointed out to me the placement of the middle figure comes across as having a shall we say "inappropriate" interaction with the other figures. The decision to use that pose was purely because the space left allowed that to be the best fitting of what was available. Critiques/advice welcomed, appreciated, and the raw hard truth encouraged