For our first homework assignment we were supposed to take a still life by Cezanne from an art book and redraw it at a much larger size, without using any grids or anything. It was pretty tedious, but I expected as much, as I had this same teacher my first semester (all those figure drawing reproductions by Leonardo and Durer and Raphael, etc. etc.)
In my critique I was told there is not enough varience in my line quality and it needs to be more LUSH!
24" x 18" - Pencil - September 2006