Artistic Charcoal Portraiture: Creating Atmosphere
Render Hair and Abstract Elements 2
A course by Sarah Stokes , Artist
About the video: Render Hair and Abstract Elements 2
Overview
“Let's finish off the lesson and the unit as a whole with the final observations on how to render hair and abstract elements.”
In this video lesson Sarah Stokes addresses the topic: Render Hair and Abstract Elements 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
“Render hair and abstract elements What I use is the charcoal pencil and very lightly just do little wisps of hair. If I don't want to touch my picture, I'll rest using my little finger on the drawing like this. They're not too regular, they're quite scratchy, but that's how I want them to be, and on the other eye a few more. I think it'd be nice as well just to add a few more rough hairs to the eyebrows here. And the movement that I do when I'm doing the lashes is something like this. That will cover both lashes and eyebrows. So just very light I'm going darker at the beginning and then tra...”
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Course summary for: Artistic Charcoal Portraiture: Creating Atmosphere
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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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