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I’m following along (loosely) with a week of online lessons called Creative Jumpstart, LFI 2026. Today’s lesson focused on working with charcoal, but I ended up finishing my piece in colored pencil. I really enjoyed the lesson and learned a lot from watching it, though my attempt in charcoal was trickier than I expected. I may try charcoal again later when I have the recommended paper. As you can see below, I started with some charcoal lines and smudging, but eventually partially erased that and switched to colored pencil. Colored pencil brought its own challenge, though, because the reference photo was in black and white.