Day 9: Using your homemade tools, business card, sifter, and /or fingers, create a sketch of a piece of fruit.

Here's my apple and pear.  The actual fruit was posed this way.  Although the outlines are too thick and dark, I like the sketch.  With my fluorescent lights, it was difficult to see where the shadows should fall and how dark to make them, but I think this works.  I added a simple background line just to give the fruit some composition and reference.

 

The powder is either getting easier to move or the fruit was an easier subject for me.  Either way, the sketch didn't take too long and it resembles what it should!

 

This challenge is certainly challenging for someone like me who can't and doesn't draw, but I am determined to keep going.  I know a "style" will emerge at some point.  I'm still sketching only in black on French Vanilla, still not signing them, still dumping them back into the jar, and still can't overload my brain with the coloration of these sketches.  However, there are 21 days left!  I also still have hope! :)