Firstly, below are my quick thumbnail/mark making practices and idea sound boards
These were basic practices regarding perspective, in case my simplicity drawing includes perspective.
This set of thumbnails show some ideas I ran through. Although I tried negative space/charcoal usage combination (draw to press into the paper, erase, then draw over it with charcoal so the negative space makes a picture), I could not consistently produce the results I wanted. Thus I abandoned this idea to try some other landscape, as you can see to the right side.
After some practice, I chose this simplicity drawing. Although I was torn and debating between adding more or staying the course, in the end I chose not to add anything because a simplicity drawing by criteria is looking to test mark-making, and although the paper looks empty, any further unnecessary mark making to add details to the tree would defeat the point and possibly get me points deducted.
And finally for the big Density drawing. I’m rather proud of this one, I think I really tried and I hope it shows.
Overall, although the density drawing took me longer, the simplicity drawing was more mentally taxing to determine what would make a good drawing. Very cool!