Drawing experiments

Through-out third year, I want to make sure I'm still refining my drawing skills alongside my painting experimentation, to ensure I don't go 'rusty' or lose touch with my own personal artistic style. In addition to this, because I am creating 'Gehenna' on paper, I think it's a good idea to practice regularly using the mediums that work well on paper; such as pencils. I want to do this so that I can play with the potential of incorporating these mediums into 'Gehenna' in certain areas. I've always loved the idea of creating a multimedia piece of work that features the use of painting, acrylic ink, indian ink, oil pastels, chalk, coloured pencil and more, all within the same piece. So that I can keep my options open in regards choice of medium in 'Gehenna', I will be drawing alongside it on a smaller scale where I will experiment with combinations of different mediums on the 400gsm paper I am painting on. 

This drawing was a useful experiment as I set myself the challenge of drawing more loosely. In the past, I have always drawn with an uptight approach to the piece, worrying that I'll make a wrong mark or draw something badly. I've observed in my work that this uptight-ness actually diminishes the motion  in the image and most my favourite artists harbour a loose and relaxed approach to capturing the people and figures in their paintings or drawings. I wanted to try and loosen up and draw more freely, which I think worked well here. I drew the image from google which serves a purpose but isn't ideal in terms of learning true observational drawing skills. Next time, I will make sure I draw from life and employ the same tactics in regards relaxing and drawing with more ease.