This charcoal piece of some still objects was done lightly in a grade 2H pencil. Once I got the general shape of the racket and ball done i began added a lot of shadow under the rackets handle and then started smudging it upwards to fill in add tone and give it a rounded effect with the highlights showing on the curvature on the handle and slowly fading into the shadows on the edges of it. To add in the little details such as the stitching on the ball and the writing, I used the corner of the charcoal to get more precise and finer detail.