Consider the two charcoal drawings below, both executed at Rogers High School in Newport on the 13th of February, 2008, as part of the RHS 2008 Arts Showcase.
The original motif was a drawing of two figures taken from gesture drawings I did the week before at the high school during dance rehearsals. I wanted to show the students how two quick gestural sketches could be worked into a drawing and used as an idea for further work. I created a landscape setting with a tree, had a dancer hanging from one arm onto a tree branch and another seated on the ground. I executed this drawing quickly, in about 15 minutes, (I worked on it more in my studio later on) and then moved on to do two more in succession. The single figure on rocks by the ocean, while it looks quite different from the first, is really related in structure. Both have a kind of L shape just to the left of center and a series of shapes or lines radiating the right. The lower left corner of each is treated differently, but if you look at the two figures which connect in an L shape and then compare to the single figure seated on rocks, also making an L shape, you start to see the related compositional structure.

"Two Dancers and Tree", charcoal, 2008.

"Figure and Rocks", charcoal, 2008.