Artistic Charcoal Portraiture: Creating Atmosphere
Creating a Tonal Value Tool
A course by Sarah Stokes , Artist
About the video: Creating a Tonal Value Tool
Overview
“During this lesson, you will make a tonal value tool that will help you to establish the dark, lights, and mid-tones in your drawings.”
In this video lesson Sarah Stokes addresses the topic: Creating a Tonal Value Tool, 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
“Creating a tonal value tool So in this lesson we'll help you make a tonal value tool, and that will help you to establish your darks, your midtones and your lights in your drawing. First of all, remember we started drawing strips using different types of charcoal. I talked about keeping hold of this one in particular and it's this one that'll become our tonal value tool. I want to slice this particular section away from everything else. I'm gonna use the knife that I used earlier to shave the pencil with. And I'm gonna cut it out. It might take a couple of scores. We might cut straight away...”
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Course summary for: Artistic Charcoal Portraiture: Creating Atmosphere
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Category
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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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