Pastel

In order to expand my basic knowledge of making fast sketches I spent some time mark making with pastels. I have used these many times before but usually in a nonrepresentational form, today I wanted to alter this. I made a couple of A4 sized hand sketches followed by a still life of objects at home. As in the last few projects I wanted to work in a monochrome format and the results are quite pleasing. The intention with the still life was to make it stylised but still obvious and also to work on the use of a thick line. The finished sketch does have a mid century feel about it almost in a cartoon/animation way. This was unexpected but pleasing.