We don’t have lines that outline our faces. So when you’re doing super realistic faces, it’s so important not to show any hard lines. But what is so great about this project is that it really shows the versatility of using charcoal. So, stay tuned for information about that. So I wanted to take this old footage, and it’s the perfect timing to showcase this project because my new book on drawing and finding your style is coming out, oh, hopefully in the next month or so.
This is one of the very first projects I posted on my channel, but it was so many years ago that no one has seen it really. I love to teach drawing and mixed media projects to beginner and really artists of all levels.
I hope you have learned a few useful techniques to improve your own drawings and paintings.Today, I’m gonna be showing you how I make a charcoal drawing of this super hot guy. So much about drawing a still life with charcoal. Compared to the previous step, a few lights have been integrated here, which intensify the overall contrast and make the tangerines even more plastically. In the picture below you can see the finished still life, which we have drawn with charcoal. With the white pastel pencil I have brightened up the highlights additionally, because the eraser pen can not always remove the complete coal from the paper. In addition, I also use a white pastel pen for drawing this still life. Drawing the highlightsĪt the end, I still work out the brightest areas with an eraser. Not only as a beginner, you will have to do corrections with an eraser every now and then and then tone down again with the charcoal until you are satisfied with the result of the shading. With the eraser pencil you can work out the light structure of the tangerines. Especially in connection with coal the kneading eraser is an important help. If an area is drawn too dark, the coal can be removed with the kneading eraser to brighten up this area. You can always blur the coal on the paper. I also draw the shadows of the tangerines darker with the charcoal, which let the fruits appear much more plastically.Īnd now we just continue in this way. Working out dark structures with a carbon pencil By working out these dark structures, a very considerable effect is already created, which makes the charcoal drawing clearly more expressive. I draw the first structures of the tangerines for this purpose with a pointed carbon pen. Now it is about to work out these dark area. The application of the coal and the blurring afterwards have already created some shadows and structures. In the picture below you can see how the charcoal drawing looks after using the smudging technique. It is thus possible to paint smooth light-dark gradients or even gray shades with the charcoal. This paper wiper blurs the coal so that single stroke can be seen. We will try it out in this exercise.Īn estompe can be used to blur the charcoal. When drawing with charcoal you can easily use the smudging technique which is a classic drawing technique. The real dark areas will be drawn later.įirst layers of coal with a carbon pencil Do not press too hard with the carbon tip, otherwise you will make the drawing too dark. Try to add a few structures with soft strokes.
So we take a piece of charcoal and draw carefully the shadows of tangerines and the dried tangerine slices. You can see the sketch in the following picture. To this end, the still life on the carton is sketched with the help of the photo reference. To start drawing, we need a small sketch of still life. Photo reference still life in black and white Here is the photo reference for the picture (in color and monochrome): As already described, the subject should be a still life consisting of three tangerines and some dried tangerine slices.
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