Artistic Charcoal Portraiture: Creating Atmosphere
How to Use Your Materials 1
A course by Sarah Stokes , Artist
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
“In this lesson, you're going to get to use all of the tools and understand how they work together by applying them, blending them, and removing them. And at the end of it, you're going to be able to use them. To draw little water drop. So 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 strict. And I've drawn them out with a pencil and a ruler. Each strip is about 27. 28 centimeters long. and about two centimeters wide. I've also left. Plenty of space between the strips. just in c...”
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Course summary for: Artistic Charcoal Portraiture: Creating Atmosphere
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Category
Illustration -
Areas
Artistic Drawing, Drawing, Fine Arts, Portrait Drawing, Realistic Drawing, Traditional illustration
Sarah Stokes
A course by Sarah Stokes
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.
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