Specialization in Pencil & Charcoal Drawing

Overview

“Let's now start to map shadows on top of the structural lines we already created. Remember, it is important to stick to only two values at this stage—don’t get sucked into shading and details! We will then refine the shadow map and start to get a stronger likeness to the reference image. One of the things to understand about art is that you won’t get things right the first time! The shadow map is an important stage at getting a likeness. It’s a good idea after drawing your shadow map to take a break and come back to it later. Stick with this stage and refine the shadow maps until you are happy and have started to see a likeness.”

In this video lesson Domestika addresses the topic: Shadow Mapping, 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

“Shadow Mapping In this lesson, we'll start to apply a shadow map on top of the structure that we've already created. It's important to stay disciplined at this stage. Remember, we did a two-value shadow map at this point. Don't get ahead of yourself and start doing too many details. I'll start to develop the drawing now by putting the shadow mapping on. I'll stick with my carbon pencils and use a B pencil. This is an opportunity, like I said, to start to flesh out the likeness because it's the shadow shapes that give us the likeness in the person. I'm trying to think about... how the shadow...”

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Course summary for: Specialization in Pencil & Charcoal Drawing

• Level: Beginner
• 199 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