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Artistic Charcoal Portraiture: Creating Atmosphere

Gridding and Drawing an Eye

A course by Sarah Stokes , Artist

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Audio: English

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About the video: Gridding and Drawing an Eye

Overview

“In this lesson, you will learn how to apply a grid to your photos and to your paper. I will then show you how to use the grid method to accurately draw an eye from the photograph. ”

In this video lesson Sarah Stokes addresses the topic: Gridding and Drawing an Eye, 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

“Gridding and drawing an eye So in this lesson I'm gonna show you how to apply a grid to a photograph, how to then apply it onto paper, and then how to grid the eye onto the paper ready to shade with charcoal. We're gonna be using the grid method for this next lesson, but I think it's important to mention that a grid will only help us so far. As soon as we start to apply charcoal onto the grid we will lose a lot of our underdrawing and a lot of the grid. It is still important to learn some key drawing skills and that's what I'll teach you now. A lot of what I'll teach you is based on the res...”

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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.