Gallery • 9 Photos

Ashton Hwang

Recently, Ms. Ma’s Art 1 class was given a new medium to try—charcoal! Using at least three values and three line thicknesses, students were to create a drawing that covers the whole page.

Meena Phan

The idea behind it was that it would be vintage art where everything is black and white and also be a perspective from a window. I like where the animal is looking away. It gives it this mystical vibe of what it is looking at. I had challenges with the clouds, which could have been more realistic, but are overall good.

Emma Wang

I was inspired to draw this when I was looking through charcoal drawings and saw a balloon. I thought just drawing balloons would be too plain, so I decided to make a balloon dog.

Suri Feng

I wanted to do something kinda dark, so I just started sketching, and Voila! 

Michelle Li

I chose to draw a chicken because I didn’t really have an idea of what to draw. I found shading with charcoal was difficult since it kept smearing on areas I didn’t want it to.

Samantha Chang

I love animals, and I wanted to try shading with charcoal. I had to be careful because charcoal smears easily.

Olivia Ocampo

The challenge was making the face perfect and scary.

Ashton Hwang

I came up with the theme after connecting the dark charcoal drawing to another dark subject. The drawing has feline-like characteristics as I based the facial shape on a fox. However, I changed the objective midway to draw a more devilish figure. This was my first time drawing charcoal so it definitely was challenging to learn how to use it. The physics of a charcoal utensil are very different compared to pencils/pens.

Rich Chaidez

This drawing was inspired by my brother Leonidas, who was named after a Spartan general who fought till his last breath and died bravely with strength and honor.

Maverick Silva

My idea came from thoughts about the goldfish that you win at a carnival. I’ve always wanted to win a little goldfish for myself and I thought, “Why not just draw it?”