The Complete Book of Drawing Techniques

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Compressed charcoal – projects

4/ Start to stick down the textures you have
cut or torn to an appropriate shape that will
roughly fit the background shape in your
drawing.

5/Once you have layered on the background
you can move forward to work on the middle
ground. It now becomes obvious why we
work from the back to the front in this
drawing as it makes covering up mistakes
easier.

6/When you have completed the middle

ground you can now move on to the

foreground and finish the drawing. Putting

any final changes to it that you might deem

necessary.