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Glider
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Archeon
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IIRC you said that charcoal is your favorite way of drawing? You are drawing a lot of the picture with pencil and then use coal for the shades, right? | ||
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Glider
United States1353 Posts
On February 17 2017 09:42 Archeon wrote: Sometimes you make me wonder how much you are still going to improve. I love all the details in the hair, the change of light on her forehead and the light around her eyes. IIRC you said that charcoal is your favorite way of drawing? You are drawing a lot of the picture with pencil and then use coal for the shades, right? everything is charcoal, including the pencil. it's like a soft charcoal pencil. then the coal you refereed to is compressed charcoal. | ||
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Archeon
3274 Posts
Would you say it's more punishing to work with charcoal than with lead pencils or very similar? Also how much do you sketch the hair? It's really impressive, especially for someone like me who always struggles with hair, makes me wonder how much preparation you do for a hairdo like that. | ||
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Glider
United States1353 Posts
On February 17 2017 20:55 Archeon wrote: Thanks, didn't know charcoal comes in multiple different compressions(<---- noob at charcoal drawing). My bad, just saw that you wrote it under your youtube video, sorry for the question. Would you say it's more punishing to work with charcoal than with lead pencils or very similar? Also how much do you sketch the hair? It's really impressive, especially for someone like me who always struggles with hair, makes me wonder how much preparation you do for a hairdo like that. define: punishing Hair is easiest / least time consuming part of the drawing for me usually. | ||
dravernor
Netherlands6192 Posts
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Archeon
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On February 20 2017 17:27 Glider wrote: define: punishing Hair is easiest / least time consuming part of the drawing for me usually. Then I'm definitely doing something wrong :/ Most tutorials I've found recommended doing stuff like going with over each spot of the hair five or six times with different colors and follow the shape, so I spend more time on the hair than the face in terms of raw drawing. @punishing: If I screwed up (one eye is slightly turned wrong f.e.), I often would just blur it a bit and redraw parts of the line with darker and the undesired parts with lighter colors so they fade into the surroundings. Bluring charcoal was a nightmare in school though, the charcoal we used was deep black and scratchy, so screwing up was easy and hard to correct. But the charcoal we worked with wasn't really like what you used in your video. | ||
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