Specialization in Pencil & Charcoal Drawing

Overview

“I'll teach you how to refine the process of drawing hair by focusing on larger shapes before gradually introducing finer details. The emphasis is on capturing the natural flow and texture of hair through highlights, shadows, and abstracted shapes, rather than attempting to draw individual strands.”

In this video lesson Domestika addresses the topic: Detailing 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

“Okay, so I finished most of the detail in the horn. I might come and revisit it in a little bit, but I'm going to move on to doing some detail and finishing off the hair to show you what that looks like. So I'm going to show you on the iPad first what I'm going to be looking at and things to look out for when drawing hair. So in the mapping stage what I was looking for were larger shapes, kind of like that there, that's a highlight, and a larger shadow, smaller shadow there, this shadow at the bottom here was very helpful for me. And I just continued that process looking for these shapes, r...”

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Course summary for: Specialization in Pencil & Charcoal Drawing

• Level: Beginner
• 184 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