Lifedrawing class: Pastel portrait

Yesterday was a fun night at lifedrawing class, the 'theme' of the night was to draw a portrait using pastels on a black gesso ground. Black is on one extreme of the value scale which really forces you to look at the tones in the face, where is the lightest light, where is the darkest dark and slowly and deliberately map them out on the paper. Good exercise..

"Carel", pastel on gessoed paper, 37x25cm