Material explorations

Well, as known... I love pencil. I feel that I can keep control throughout the whole drawing with it, creating very thin lines or big shapes; shading or just filling blocks.

I know that graffiti pencil is gray, so the "black" will never be real black.

So, I started trying other medias.

In this draft below I have charcoal pencil on the left and graffiti on the right (my experience is, the black of charcoal is beautiful, but the media itself is not that smooth to work with, which annoys me).

Since I was working on a paper with texture, the charcoal drawing feels harder than the graffiti one. Please let me know which you like best?

This is exploration for Luiza's hair, which is fire.

At first I had this irregular shapes, now I'm considering working with lines, which I believe to bring more movement to it.

1. graffiti pencil

2. graffiti pencil

3. charcoal pencil

4. charcoal pencil + woodless color pencils

5. woodless color pencils