My favourite drawing medium

I've tried a lot of different drawing mediums, and I'm always looking to try new ones, but my absolute favourite is graphite. It's so raw.

So pure. You can put so much intricate detail, and with the different hardnesses, you can achieve such a varied level of tone.

I like the pinpoint precision that you can get with graphite, and find that this works really well with portrait work.

I've just signed up for a portraiture course, and our first assignment is to do a portrait with graphite. Time to trawl some sites and photo files methinks.