Our first assignment of the year was a study on Light, Line, and Space. I chose to do my assignment of a still life of two Cow skulls that was set up. At first, I was worried that I wouldn’t be able to finish the piece because I hadn’t done something that big since the last semester. I used vine charcoal and charcoal pencil. I tried to create movement by rubbing the charcoal out in one direction, but I wasn’t able to create enough shadows to contrast the lighter parts of the picture. Others said that they really liked how I was able to manipulate the charcoal to create the movement, and also how I did the background. The background was done last minute with an ink wash. I tried to make sure that the ink helped with the remaining white space around the main skulls.