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Charcoals & Pencil (more coming soon)

Technically speaking, charcoal is burnt organic material.  Usually the material is wood.  There are a few types of charcoal used by artists to create a drawing.  These types of charcoal include "vine" and "compressed". Learning how to draw with charcoal is just like learning how to draw with any medium.  It takes practice.  Charcoal drawing is a well-recognized media. With a little chunk of charcoal and eraser you can achieve very professional looking black-white images. Shading, blending and highlighting can help anyone create a really beautiful piece of work.

Pencil drawing includes many techniques such as hatching, cross hatching, stipping, back and forth strokes and scumbling. Hatching is simply marking out small lines bunched together to create fill color from further away. Cross hatching  is a shading technique, and is a good way of adding darker shades to pencil portraits, as multiple layers can be added. Stipping is another shading technique, but for smaller areas such as iris’ of the eyes.
Scumbling is moving the pencil in small, circular motions keeping them all very compact and is brilliant for keeping the shading tight.


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