Drawing with Charcoal: A Drinking Cat

For an art project, I chose to use charcoal. I went to my local Eason, and bought a set of four charcoal pencils: Light, Medium, Dark, and White TC21 (Tinted Charcoal).

I also bought a 'putty rubber', a kneadable rubber recommended for when using charcoal. Everything was from the drawing company Derwent. I looked on the internet for a picture of a black and white cat, I wanted to do a cat, and it being in black and white would have helped me a lot. I finally chose this one:

 
 
I got to work and this is what came out some couple of weeks later:

Original cat picture from: here.

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