Specialization in Pencil & Charcoal Drawing

Overview

“In this lesson, I'l explain the role photography plays in my planning process. The world of photography can be daunting, but I’ll go over the basics elements of photography that you can easily apply. I’ll also go over things to take into consideration for drawing it later.”

In this video lesson Domestika addresses the topic: Photography for Reference, 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

“In this lesson I'm going to be taking you through my process of taking reference photos. I'm going to use my own body for this shoot, so we're going to head over to the studio and get into it. Okay, and this is our live view so we can see all of our settings. So the settings I have at the moment, the camera is in manual mode, our shutter speed is 1 over 250 and our aperture is f2.8. We also have an ISO of 800, which is a native ISO for this camera. And let's change our aperture from f2.8 to f6.3. We want to avoid having too shallow a depth of field in this case, so that more of the subject ...”

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Course summary for: Specialization in Pencil & Charcoal Drawing

• Level: Beginner
• 70 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