Specialization in Pencil & Charcoal Drawing

Overview

“How can we cultivate a life long artistic practice that is both sustainable and exciting? I share what my career has taught me about building healthy creative structures: from self-critique, learning new skills and mediums, engaging with a community, collaboration and the reality of being a full time independent artist. ”

In this video lesson Domestika addresses the topic: Continuous Learning and Improvement, 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, we're going to go through continuous learning and self-improvement. The first thing we can look at is the power of self-critique. Self-critique can be extremely useful and help us break out of our rut. It can help us continue to make progress and prevent autistic stagnation. A caveat to this is sometimes self-critique can be too critical and that can stifle creative flow. We can find external critique, someone who can help us get a more objective view on our work, but it needs to be someone who adds energy. Is self-critique necessary? No, of course not. But if you are practi...”

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Course summary for: Specialization in Pencil & Charcoal Drawing

• Level: Beginner
• 20 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