For this exercise I had to build up dark, medium and light tones. The shells didn't come out too bad. I did use black pen for some of them which didn't allow the same contrast of tone as the pencil drawings.
The sheep horn in pencil worked quite well. I used a putty rubber to highlight, and 3B and 6B pencils for the darker area, and this gave a greater variety of light to dark contrast.
The starfish was an exercise in stipples and dots. I used a black pen which was great at making quick dots and dashes, but when it came to building up tone and shadow, I found I had maybe been a bit heavy handed and got carried away with my dots. The lighter areas, which would have been on the top of the starfish, look a little dark and really I should have eased up and left some patches of white to contrast with the shadow.
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