Specialization in Pencil & Charcoal Drawing

Overview

“I believe that understanding the behaviour of light is the most important thing any artist must learn. Light allows us to see the world around us, and as artists, we need to understand it properly. In this lesson, I will explain how light interacts with objects, and how we can use light and shading to really bring out facial structures.”

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

“So I believe that understanding the behaviour of light is incredibly important for us as artists because it's how we see the world around us. light interacts with everything and that's how we see it. So in this lesson, I'm going to explain to you the behavior of light and how you can apply it to drawing portraits. I'm just going to start off by drawing a sphere here. And we'll shade it in. realistically and we'll use that to demonstrate how light behaves First of all, let's just draw a ball in here. There's enough to be two. Perfect. Okay, and we're going to Put a light source. somewhere up...”

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Course summary for: Specialization in Pencil & Charcoal Drawing

• Level: Beginner
• 100% positive reviews (6)
• 711 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