Specialization in Pencil & Charcoal Drawing

Overview

“In this lesson I will show you some important fundamentals to know for the correct capture of lights and shadows, a central part of the technique to approach this course.”

In this video lesson Domestika addresses the topic: Basics of Light Capture, 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

“Fundamentals to capture light Now I'll show you the fundamentals to capture light and shadow. Capturing light and shadow is important for painters to resolve very old themes, like capturing depth on a flat medium like a sheet. Light and shadow are even more important than color, in my opinion. The brain easily recognizes a mistake, more so than the color because we are used to seeing, around us, how light manifests itself on different materials, depths and weather conditions even. While light gives us the answer of what we're looking at, color tells us how we're seeing it. It's very importa...”

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Course summary for: Specialization in Pencil & Charcoal Drawing

• Level: Beginner
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• 291 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