Liz does Facebook

In the final stages of my drawing course, I did this charcoal sketch of my daughter Elizabeth in a typical pose - crouched over her phone textng and updating her Facebook status.

I took some photos of her in the pose (as she would not have stayed still), and then used a stick of charcoal taped to a long brush to do the main part of the drawing. This was recommended by my tutor as a way of freeing up my rather cramped style. I finished off the detail with charcoal held in the hand, as the long stick was a little hard to control.

The whole thing took no more than 10 minutes, and I'm quite pleased with the immediacy of the pose and the sense of frantic concentration...(and yes, she does have long prehensile toes).