Charcoal Still Life!

A basic to learning how to draw is setting up a still life and drawing from observation. Sounds a little boring, so I put a twist to the assignment. We started by practice 3 different compostions of the still life using 3 different emotions! How would you draw an angry umbrella and still make it look like the actual object? Student used a wide variety of line and technique to capture each of their emotions. In the end they choose 1 compostion and 1 style they liked best to create into a final piece.