Artistic Charcoal Portraiture: Creating Atmosphere
Gridding and Drawing an Eye
A course by Sarah Stokes , Artist
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
“So in this lesson, I'm going to show you how to apply a grid to a photograph how to then apply it onto paper, and then had to grid the eye onto the paper. ready to shade with charcoal. We're going to 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'm going to teach you now. A lot of what I'm going to teach you is based on the resear...”
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Course summary for: Artistic Charcoal Portraiture: Creating Atmosphere
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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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