Playful Portraits in Charcoal

What Does The Author Mean By..?

1. Making Notes

2. Pushing

3. Modelling

4. Photo Copy Mode

5. Describing

6. Not Symbols

1. Marking the top of the head bottom of the chin middle the eyes, dividing the rest of the space in half for the bottom of the nose and the rest in half for the middle of the mouth

2. Starting out lightly to gradually build up value pushing for shadows and highlight not for details

3. Taking a needed eraser to add highlights throughout the piece

4. Thinking like a photo copy machine, everything is in black and white

5. Accurately mapping out the value, describing the form without details

6. Important to not think about specific features like eyes, nose, mouth, think about shape maps

Charcoal

As we begin our new unit, Conte and Charcoal I have learned that they are both very messy tools to use. Charcoal is a stick of black carbon material used for drawing. Artists generally utilize charcoal in two forms

      1. Vine charcoal is created by burning sticks of wood (usually willow or linden/Tilia) into soft, medium, and hard consistencies

2. Compressed charcoal is charcoal powder mixed with gum binder compressed into round or square sticks. Compressed charcoal is used in drawing pencils

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• Used in such drawings as this to create value and affect to draw more detail into the piece of artwork

It gives more affect of value because you blend and control how much is applied to each project 

Famous charcoal artists are:

1. Kate Sammons

2. David Jon Kassan

3. Justin Balliet

4. Steve Mihal

5. Henry Yan

Kate Sammons             David Jon Kassan          Justin Balliet