shades of gray

today we made charcoal drawings of a table set up with a few objects on it. we had to draw it in black and white only and we started out by making the entire piece of paper we had gray. then we erased and lightened of darkened parts of the picture to make it more realistic. i think the point of today was to learn how to use shadow and brightness to show how something looks instead of just using color. i think i achieved these goals pretty well because i think on my picture you could see what each item was and that they had different shadows and texture to them. some of the difficulties were that the charcoal kept rubbing off of where i wanted it and that i had to add shadow and fill in all the empty spaces so it didnt just look like lines that i drew but like actual objects.