By Steve, on top of his charcoal technique with a nice ripe pepper, bulging out of the page.Steve again. This ink technique does the job well, but I feel the cross-hatching could be more refined. The hatch lines in the shadows below the peppers in particular seem ill-considered – a bit too scribbly?By Kathy. Well on the way to tackling the tone barrier.Kathy again, finding an ideal medium – black and grey charcoal blended by finger – to get volume and surface in her egg. Prue, exploring the subtleties of cross-hatching. Prue, returning from ink to pencil, but still using hatching marks. Making single-stroke marks in pencil (as if it were a pen) gives stylishness to a pencil drawing.
