Given that I work with such a simple medium as charcoal, when working on the Erotic collection, I wanted to produce pictures that reflected this simplicity, but in a way that could at times display a certain level of elegance. This was achieved using a high contrast effect, where the focus is on areas of light and dark, as opposed to particular details, with the intention of the end result being a picture, where the light source is often at an acute angle to the subject, creating highlights and shadows to accentuate the subjects curves and muscle tone.