Back to Basics - Sketch Dump 3

One interesting way to practice drawing is to take an object and draw it in outline, draw it again in mass and then combine mass and line in the last one. My drawings below aren't in any particular order, but each subject is drawn three times. I would draw the outline, then take the charcoal and put it on its side and go to town on the paper- making really dark marks and trying to flesh out the shape and negative space around the object without making any hard lines. For the last drawing, you combine the two and give the line gesture some shading.