Life Drawing - Charcoal Revisited

Had an interesting life drawing session yesterday at 10 Feet Tall. It was a 'suggest a theme' session where people posted what they would like to see on the FB page and the model did his interpretation of the suggestions. This included wearing a morph suit, pressing and wrapping himself in cling film, posing in a druids robe and then to appease the purists a few standard poses.

I think everybody struggled with the wrapped in cling film pose, it was one of those things that would have been really interesting if you could spend several hours on it, as it was we only had 15/20 mins (I really must remember to put times next to the drawings!) I wasn't too displeased with my attempt, using charcoal helped as i could lay down tone and then pick out highlights.

I've recently come back to charcoal after a long old while, we never really got on but it's something I've always wanted to get better with as you can get such a good atmosphere with the stuff. That and it's fun to get messy sometimes (I imagine it would be quite painful to try with a pencil!) I did a few studies from photo ref before leaving just to get back in the swing of things, I've posted it along with the results of the session which I can bear to show! (hint: it's the female one)