Specialization in Pencil & Charcoal Drawing

Overview

“Lastly, using tools like mechanical erasers, precision erasers, and soft pencils, you’ll learn how to create delicate textures, such as fine hairs following natural growth patterns and subtle wrinkles where the skin stretches or bends. By mastering these final touches, you’ll enhance the depth and polish of your artwork, leaving it ready for a comprehensive review in the next lesson.”

In this video lesson Domestika addresses the topic: Detailing 4, 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

“I spoke earlier about creating small shapes in the horns, the way that the light works on certain crevices or bulges in skin or whatever material. And the same thing's happening here except in the inverse. So I can show you on the iPad exactly what I mean. So let's use this line here for example. The light in our reference image is coming from this direction here and usually the highlight would be on the same side as your light source. But in this case because this is a crevice in the skin, the highlight is on the opposite side. And even though that's simple, it's something that's really im...”

This transcript is automatically generated, so it may contain mistakes.

Course summary for: Specialization in Pencil & Charcoal Drawing

• Level: Beginner
• 28 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