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Artistic Charcoal Portraiture: Creating Atmosphere

How to Use Your Materials 1

A course by Sarah Stokes , Artist

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Audio: English

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About the video: How to Use Your Materials 1

Overview

“You’ll get to experiment with the tools to apply, blend, remove charcoal by drawing a small water drop so that you can move to the final stage of this lesson with confidence.”

In this video lesson Sarah Stokes addresses the topic: How to Use Your Materials 1, 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

“How to use materials In this lesson you're gonna get to use all of the tools and understand how they work together by applying, blending and removing them. At the end of it, you're gonna be able to use them to draw a little water drop. First, what we're going to do is we're going to apply all these different types of charcoal onto paper, and to do this, I've prepared a piece of paper with five strips and I've drawn them out with a pencil and a ruler. Each strip is about 27 or 28 cm long and about two centimetres wide. I've also left plenty of space between the strips, just in case I want to...”

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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.