What's My Medium?

I'd say I love charcoal, although pencil is always great especially for sketching. I think I love charcoal because it's so dark, however it's extremely difficult to erase, which is very bad for me . . . overall though I prefer charcoal because I love the variation and how drastic it can make an image, whereas with pencil the color isn't as intense so it's harder to see and less powerful to me. I like the strength of charcoal and to me it jumps out at me more visually. Conte is definitely too difficult for me. If they only made a Conte sharpener I think I'd be fine . . .

i see dead plants . . .

Ok so I didn't have a potted plant and there are no plants around our apartment besides trees and bushes. So, I had to borrow my friend's dead plant. It made for quite an interesting composition, I think, although the plant was so stringy that most of it came out as a bunch of lines. I sat it next to my video camera bag and my purse with a mirror behind it. I think I could've made a much more interesting composition though. I was disappointed because parts of the plant that were most interesting had fallen apart, like the super-long viney piece that I really wanted to draw. I really tried to work with my line variation and I hope it went better this time. I also hope it isn't too late to rework my midterm, I think I forgot . . .

drawing exteriors

I found out how bad I was at intuitive perspective . . . I was so focused on line variation and making my first drawing light, that I messed up on the angles of things. To make it even harder, I couldn't finish it in one sitting, so I had already drawn in some cars, and stupid me forgot that those moved . . . fortunately the same cars were there, except they had moved over one or two spaces, which really threw my perspective off. I tried to fix it, but I'd already gone over it with the 4B before I realized I'd messed up. So now my drawing has horrible perspective, and I can't draw a straight line for the life of me, so the tops of buildings and the curb look like something from an expressionist painting . . . hopefully I can get some pointers today on how to fix this.