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Artistic Charcoal Portraiture: Creating Atmosphere

Exploring Materials and Equipment

A course by Sarah Stokes , Artist

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About the video: Exploring Materials and Equipment

Overview

“In this lesson, you will learn all about the materials that we’re going to use: where to buy them and how to use them. ”

In this video lesson Sarah Stokes addresses the topic: Exploring Materials and Equipment, which is part of the Domestika online course: Artistic Charcoal Portraiture: Creating Atmosphere. Learn how to create powerful and dramatic portraits with charcoal.

Partial transcription of the video

“Exploring materials and equipments In this lesson we'll look at the materials you're gonna need, where to buy them from, how to maintain them and how to use them. The first one I'll show you is willow. Willow comes in lots of different sizes. You've got some really big willow sticks like this one, and you can get medium and you can get small. I really like willow because it's easy to lift and it's easy to blend, and it's brilliant for things like skin tones. You can sharpen it to a point to make it really flat. And don't feel worried about breaking it into tiny pieces, because sometimes you...”

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Course summary for: Artistic Charcoal Portraiture: Creating Atmosphere

Level: Beginner
99% positive reviews (1071)
24355 students
5 units
22 lessons (4h 2m)
12 downloads

Category
Illustration
Areas
Artistic Drawing, Drawing, Fine Arts, Portrait Drawing, Realistic Drawing, Traditional illustration

Sarah Stokes

A course by Sarah Stokes

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Artist

Sarah Stokes is a self-taught artist from the Midlands region in England, a place where she finds inspiration and creates work that is full of life. From a young age, Sarah has always been her happiest when painting and drawing, using her creativity to build a successful business career before deciding to return to what she loved most.
She has created artwork for bands, restaurants, breweries, and schools, as well as giftware for clients like Enesco. Her work is exhibited in Whitewall Galleries, Clarendon Fine Art, and several independent galleries. Sarah’s prints can also be found worldwide in places like Next, Wayfair, and on Amazon.