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Artistic Charcoal Portraiture: Creating Atmosphere

How to Use Your Materials 2

A course by Sarah Stokes , Artist

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24,355 students

Audio: English

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About the video: How to Use Your Materials 2

Overview

“We top off this lesson on how to use your materials.”

In this video lesson Sarah Stokes addresses the topic: How to Use Your Materials 2, 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

“How to use materials Now you've seen how each of the different types of charcoal has been blended we're gonna move on to abstracting them using erasers and acetone. I'll get rid of this masking tape to reveal the shapes underneath. Now we've removed the masking tape and we can see the nice sharp edges that it's left. I'll label each of these bands to remind us what made each of those bands. The first one was willow. The second one was the charcoal pencil. Next one was the charcoal stick. And then we had the blend of the two. And finally the powder. Next, we'll use a variety of different era...”

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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.