Drawing From Imagination with Graphite and Charcoal

Overview

“This is where I start identifying areas of the drawing where to add detail. When working on the darker areas, it is important to build the tone gradually, using either a soft or hard eraser to lift graphite. A soft eraser is better at lifting large areas of tone, while the edge of a hard eraser can be used to describe sharper highlights. I will work around these areas again with a pencil/blender to refine the detail. It is a gradual process of building tone, creating highlights, blending then repeating until the required depth of tone and detail is obtained. ”

In this video lesson Shaun Friend addresses the topic: Building Dark Tones, Highlights, and Details, which is part of the Domestika online course: Drawing From Imagination with Graphite and Charcoal . Embrace the freedom of drawing and create art that tells a story through mark making, composition, line work, and tone.

Partial transcription of the video

“ Building Dark Tones, Highlights, and Details In this lesson, we will be working on our drawing and working on some of the areas of dark tone. Referring back to the sketch, there were some areas that we had decided we would make dark up here on this background character coming through to the side and the dress on this foreground character. They're the areas we will focus on now. Building those levels of tone up, we have something very dark. For that, I'll be using the same pencil I've used all along, the 4B, but I'll also use a traditional pencil to help blend those colours, and a harder p...”

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Course summary for: Drawing From Imagination with Graphite and Charcoal

• Level: Beginner
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• 4 units
• 16 lessons (3h 12m)
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• Category

  Illustration

• Areas

  Artistic Drawing, Drawing, Figure Drawing, Fine Arts, Pencil Drawing, Traditional illustration