Charcoals are a medium I've been growing to enjoy. It can be rather fickle at times but the combination of the soft and hard pieces of charcoal are incredibly interesting to explore.

Piece to the left is the mask from Vienna, is a fine tuned approach to using charcoal working with soft gradients and shadows.

Piece in the middle is named flip, and presented a host of new problems, while making both faces remain distinguished and not overbearing on either face when inverted.

Piece in the upper far right was an experimentation with negative space, and lighting. Using the way that light interacts with grass infields to give the scene a better visual while in the dark.

Piece in the lower far right is of Weird Al, and it was created using new techniques. Such as using charcoal dust to distinguish the form at the beginning and then using finer, harder charcoals to fill in the darker tones and refine the piece.

This medium is the one I have the most experience in, and the one I'm most comfortable in.

The blue jay below, was my longest piece, due to the sheer amount of revisions, and feathers were surprisingly difficult to ratio to the other feathers.

The cat's face to the right of the Blue Jay, was for a better understanding of the impact a close up has in photography and film. Placing a greater emphasis on the eyes and the finer details

The masked figure to the far right was one of my earlier pieces in my art journey and shows proportional errors, but still demonstrates the striking nature and personality of the figure.

The coffee mug in the bottom left