Work in progress, a drawing of my favorite model. This is actually a procedural study for a larger piece; I like this blue paper and the black and white charcoal, and I’m trying out the concept of using a bristle brush to smooth the initial charcoal layers for tone, and then going back over with hatching and lines. I want it to look like a drawing, not a photograph, but I do like the smoothness of tone that you can get with brushing. Thinking Prud’hon and Greuze here. Got a ways to go on this one still, obviously, but the broad strokes are in, and now there’s a lot of modeling of form to do.