Here is my observational drawing of my back garden using charcoal as a medium; by first covering the entire page with it and then rubbing out the light areas.
This drawing doesn't have too much contrast because it was quite a dense area, and so there are only a few highlighted areas. This works well because of the subtlety of all the tones present, and yet you can still make out what everything is. There is a clear composition of foreground, midground and background each with varying levels of detail to create those varying levels of depth; for example the foliage in the foreground on the right and the darker/blurrier areas in the background. I tried to get the bird stand on the left as close to the rule of thirds as I could so as to create something the eye could be drawn to; and athough it is not exactly in the right place, moving the whole perspective would have made me miss out other areas.
The lighting is very subtle in this drawing, and yet works quite well. The direction of the light is clear since all the objects have highlights in the right places, and depending on the type of surface, this determined the amount of reflectivity (for example the grass was more reflective than the stone slabs in the foreground).The light area in the upper left also highlights that there is a building there behind the trees.
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