Assignment 1: initial sketch

This was a first attempt at the 'natural forms' composition for the first assignment.

I've agonised about getting a decent composition, and I'm not entirely happy with this composition of shells and teazles on a sheet of hessian.

Getting the shiny surfaces of the big conch to show proved difficult, and I've not worked out yet how to express the surface of the hessian.

Anyway, this is the first go at it...(using pencil, some graphite pencil, and some charcoal)