The instructions for this exercise were to build up from the dark tones and to "keep the drawing spontaneous and full of energy". I'm not sure I managed that; once some of the dark tones had been filled in, I immediately got sucked into the detail of the picture.
One other problem was that I chose a white tray on which to place the items, which included a white jug and a glass coffee pot with silver top. This meant very littel colour in a lot of the composition, with me using black and grey pencils much as I would for a normal pencil drawing. I also meant that a lot of the highlights in the silver and around the top of the jug were impossible to achieve on white paper (maybe if I'd used a darker paper, I could have made better use of white pencil).
So on the whole, I'm not wild about the results, which look like a pencil drawing with a bit of colour added.
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