Artistic Charcoal Portraiture: Creating Atmosphere

Overview

“In this lesson, you’ll get to apply charcoal to your eye sketch and learn how to blend and lift it, paying attention to tonal values, to create a beautifully rendered eye drawing.”

In this video lesson Sarah Stokes addresses the topic: Applying Charcoal to the Drawing, 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

“Applying charcoal to the drawing In this lesson we're going to be applying charcoal to our gridded drawing. We'll look at the dark, the mid and the light tones, so you end up with a beautifully rendered eye. We'll take the photograph and we're gonna look at the big shapes. I'm looking here at this huge mass of dark, in fact there's a lot of dark on this photograph, and then I'm looking at this side of the eye, which is quite grey, and this side that's a bit lighter. Generally speaking, I will work from dark to light. That's quite unusual. A lot of charcoal portrait artists will work from li...”

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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