Specialization in Pencil & Charcoal Drawing

Overview

“In this lesson I will show you some simple but important exercises to understand the concepts of light and shadow. I'll also show you how to create a grayscale and a sphere with different types of shadows. ”

In this video lesson Domestika addresses the topic: How Light and Shadow Work 1, which is part of the Domestika online course: Specialization in Pencil & Charcoal Drawing. Master Pencil and Charcoal by focusing on light, shadow, and proportion to create expressive, realistic drawings.

Partial transcription of the video

“How light and shadow work The first thing we are going to do before getting fully into shading is to organize ourselves. This is a gray scale and it will serve us throughout the entire project and the rest of the drawings that we make. to make this scale they have to make a rectangle with five squares inside and they're going to, first of all, shade the darkest one. You can use the darkest pencil you have. In my case, the 8B. Once they have the last square shaded, They're going to leave the first one blank. That's going to be our lightest shade or highest shade. The lightest tones are the h...”

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Course summary for: Specialization in Pencil & Charcoal Drawing

• Level: Beginner
• 74 students
• 6 units
• 82 lessons (15h 40m)
• 53 downloads

• Category

  Illustration

• Areas

  Architectural Illustration, Artistic Drawing, Drawing, Figure Drawing, Fine Arts, Pencil Drawing, Portrait Drawing, Realistic Drawing, Sketchbook, Sketching, Traditional illustration