Episode 1: Different types of charcoal & other tools

This is very important for beginners to know every tool for charcoal drawing. Let’s see how many pencils and other tools you do have currently. If you are missing out few art material you can buy them as well as it will certainly enhance your drawing skills, but if you have even a minimum numbers of tools, wow… you are all set for this class.

Episode 2: Shading and smudging exploration

The best way to smudge charcoal is not to do it like the graphite media. You need to use your fingers for smudging primary values and then adding more layers. If you are not so confident about using your fingers you can use paper stumps or brushes or tissue papers. Practice using fingers are great effort for anyone who want learn charcoal academically.

Episode 3: Approaches for charcoal

Try to approach charcoal in different ways like use willow charcoal for preliminary lines or structure and on the other hand use charcoal pencil to begin with the outlines.

Episode 4: using eraser as drawing tools/ highlight tool

First try to prepare surface with dark tones and then use eraser for subtracting the values and finding light values of drawing. Practice it for various portraits or still life etc.

Episode 5: Light and Shades understanding

This is most challenging for beginners and artists to identifying lights and shades in a portrait and begin any portrait like this. Try to find pictures which are dramatic changes in tonal values and practicing to begin finding dark values first.

Episode 6:

Structuring a face using willow charcoal for human head anatomy is always a the most difficult but funny approach. At the beginning you don't even know that where your portrait are actually going. For practicing this technique you need to roughly draw structures of 10 different faces in a day. This will definitely help you in understanding proportions of face in a better way.

For learning about graphite class, you can watch my skillshare class on "beginners guide to draw portrait" over here https://skl.sh/2D7hpEy

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