The Cat Muse helped me with my return to charcoal sketching. The bamboo skewers help me with the ellipse of the bowl opening and the spacial relationship between the plum and the white vase.

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For this sketch, I decided to create the shapes only using the tones; I didn’t draw the shapes at all. Dark objects still present difficulties for me; they should be more than a shadowy glob.