Specialization in Pencil & Charcoal Drawing

Overview

“Being disciplined when shading tones really separates beginners from more advanced artists. Shadow mapping and organising values is a key skill in producing professional-looking portraits. In this lesson, we will learn to map shadows onto a face using only two values, this way beginning to develop a likeness to our subject. We will then build on the shadow map using five values to bring out the secondary details of the face, and put into practice what we have learned about the behaviour of light.”

In this video lesson Domestika addresses the topic: Limited Value Drawing 1, 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

“Limited Value Drawing Being disciplined with light and shadow is important when it comes to portraits, and it's one of the things that really separates beginners from more advanced artists. What we'll do in this lesson is developing a drawing using a limited number of values. We'll start off with just a two-value drawing, and we'll come up with our shadow shapes. It's at this stage of the portrait where you start to capture the likeness. We'll then start to bring out some of the secondary detail using a five-value scale. As we learned in the previous lesson, it's really important to separat...”

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Course summary for: Specialization in Pencil & Charcoal Drawing

• Level: Beginner
• 27 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