Specialization in Pencil & Charcoal Drawing

Overview

“Now, you’ll learn to balance personal artistic choices with the inherent limitations of graphite, making deliberate decisions that contribute to your work's unique identity. This iterative process sharpens your ability to capture depth and texture while maintaining the natural flow of the composition.”

In this video lesson Domestika addresses the topic: Advanced Techniques Applying Graphite and Techniques 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

“There can be a temptation in sections like this where you want to try and create larger shadows using straight lines and often that ends up looking a little bit artificial, it can look a bit inorganic and a nice way to work around that is to create smaller moments, so smaller circles and almost to fill in that line with small organic circles rather than these rigid straight lines. I'm shifting to a slightly different technique here with the drawing. I'm not doing as much hatching in this area. I'm working more with small little circles and this is just another way of applying graphite. So w...”

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Course summary for: Specialization in Pencil & Charcoal Drawing

• Level: Beginner
• 189 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