Mmmmmmm Pandas like to eat my brains

Thought I'd start out with a few montaged images of some gestures of models we've been doing in class and also the gestures I created before doing my self portrait.... You may be wondering why Pandas have been showing up in my work a lot lately and my response is because I love them and I'm renewing that love ^^ ....and they're easy to draw. Yes I just used that as an excuse thats right. Anywhoooo when I was drawing my self portrait I didn't realize how much charcoal had transferred from my paper to my hands to myyy face.