Specialization in Pencil & Charcoal Drawing

Overview

“Now I'm going to debunk some myths and preconceptions about the face—eyes, nose, mouth—and show you how to bring all the light and shadow work you did in the first part of this lesson into a more complex organic shape.”

In this video lesson Domestika addresses the topic: How Light and Shadow Work 2, 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 Now we are going to see how the lights and shadows are applied in eyes, nose and mouth. Let's see what we think the eyes, nose and mouth look like. They will see that what we think is very different or they taught us as kids what there really is. I am an industrial designer and one of the first exercises they made me do was: they told all the students to "draw a table". Automatically we all draw a table with four legs and then they explained to us that this was our preconception or what we had as imaginary of the table. The reality is very different. There are tabl...”

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Course summary for: Specialization in Pencil & Charcoal Drawing

• Level: Beginner
• 73 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