Half eaten grapes in a bowl.

Since I’m tucked away in a holiday apartment writing my fingers off, I haven’t had much time to sketch or variety of subject material to choose from. But the solution to that was to draw whatever was on the table beside me, and do it quick and rough with a thick, soft charcoal pencil.

Sketching fast and loose can be as much fun as taking time and getting the detail down. I decided to gently push realism to the side and try to capture the character in the little stalks and the roundness of the grapes.