Razor's 2019 Sketchbook

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Nice to see some decent studies and in charcoal too and focusing on actually important fundy drawing skills. You're gonna level up big time if you continue this mate :)

Can i ask how big you are drawing? A2 or minimum A3 newsprint and drawing larger can help you hone your edge control until you get the dexterity upskilled. If you really want to isolate and work edges, doing 20 min layins (enough time to be challenging not enough to waste time) with edges but no tone at all until perhaps the very end if there is time, is a massive skill and hand-eye booster.
Bradwyn Jones on yt has some good videos showing the same process we've also been doing at the studio classes which is heavily Reilly /Watts focused. You might also want to read Harold Speed's book on Drawing which is all about the academic method and probably help you flesh out the context and why these things are so important.

As fedo mentioned your proportions and edges likely could do with more accurate mapping which will likely be shown in analysing the refs. But your accuracy will come on quick and improve big time if you keep doing the focused layins.

thanks Amit thats encouraging I'll definitely be sticking with the charcoals for awhile then... I have a big roll of newsprint which I can cut to A2 but the size Ive been using is A3 to fit my board... Im still trying to get use to the violin type grip but Im loving the freedom of movement, smudging and pickout with kneaded eraser....

I actually watched one of Bradwyn videos the other night and sort of followed along but it was a Chris Legaspi vid that got my charcoal interest back its amazing what you can do with a stick of charcoal

yes my biggest problem is patience and of course taking the time to block in so will try and fix that

yea been stuck last few weeks wasnt sure what direction to head and improve.... so its encouraging that you recommend this.... cheers

Edit: just checked Bradwyn's 20 minute warmup blockins.... will def be doing those