CHARCOAL PORTRAIT
Drawing Technique & Procedure
Seven drawing procedure and technique demonstration to create and design the finest beauty of the charcoal portrait with the best selected composition. |
Charcoal portrait drawing and sketching process seven - finishing
Artist's model - Sophie Grégoire Trudeau
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Theme: Three quarter view portrait pose and perspectives. |
Charcoal Drawing
Seven Step Method Procedure
♦ 1. Ball - Basic Shape of Cranial ♦ 2. Ball & Plane
♦ 3. Envelope Method ♦ 4. Constuction Lines ♦ 5. Light charcoal pencil drawing ♦ 6. Brush Drawing and Blending
♦ 7. Detailings |
♦ Drawing Materials:
Vine charcoal sticks, willow charcoal powder, charcoal pencil, blending stamp, kneaded eraser, rubber eraser, liner brush #1, angular #2, filbert or dagger #4, fan brush cleaner, round brush #10, 12 and 18, charcoal illustration boards, paper, card or canvas. |
| Drawing is largely a matter of practice and observation using eyes all the time. Good drawing can be with a piece of vine charcoal and a drawing board, sketching using freely in any space, we can draw in trains, cafes, museums or parks... anywhere. Drawing is self-critical which is the best renditions, planning in the early stage minimize the modifying errors, using mechanics in the construction lines gives a precise line of proportions. |
| ♦ 7. Detailing layer - final touches, pulling the shades and shadows to define contrast of values and soft edges. |
Charcoal portrait drawing and sketching process six - blending
Drawing accenting lines
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| ♦ 6. Drawing and blending with a dry brush technique creates a smooth transition of values - final touches, pulling the shades and shadows, raising the solidity of the lighted form are defined. Some compositions are applied, the blurry edges merging to background, the lost and faded. Using kneaded eraser to define light section and because of its ability to reshape will gives a very confident line drawing. |
Charcoal portrait drawing and sketching process five
Pencil drawing clean-up lines
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♦ 5. Light charcoal pencil drawing |
Charcoal portrait, ball and plane step 4
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♦ 4. Construction Lines - block-in precision
Envelope Method - block-in, the mathematics of envelope geometry of portraiture drawings are defined and proportions. From the ball of cranial represented by perfect circle and locating the center line projections, leads the precise building of envelope geometry. The negative surface and the silhouette
drawing of lines of angles are always proportionate to each envelope, placing each details in a position. |
Charcoal portrait, ball and plane step 3
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♦ 3. Envelope Method
The cranial is added by a jaw plane and divide in half projecting the center line, the face is also divided equally 1/3 one third, the standard measurements in drawing and sectioning of facial form. Brow lines, nose and chin are observed equally and the hairline can vary in the proportion. Section of each thirds are mapping the place of details. |
Charcoal portrait, ball and plane step 2 |
♦ 2. Ball and Plane
Envelope Method - block-in, the mathematics of envelope geometry of portraiture drawings are defined and proportions. From the ball of cranial represented by perfect circle and locating the center line projections, leads the precise building of envelope geometry. The negative surface and the silhouette
drawing of lines of angles are always proportionate to each envelope, placing each details in a position. |
Charcoal portrait, ball and plane step 1
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♦ 1. Ball - Basic Shape of Cranial - ball drawing crop with sides, making a cross section perspective guide.The the mass of cranium - in any angles the position of the ear is the starting key for the placement of the every details relies on it, equivalents to the eyebrow and nose position lines in the front view and the hair lines. |
| ♦ Thumbnail drawings sketching compositions - planning in the early stage - quick sketches getting the bearing of the models best features, construct and design to create the best posture composition. Using vine charcoal allows to change the details easily and quicly. |
Fusain vine charcoal sticks quick rough sketch-
Studies - Figure 4 |
| ♦ Sketching Compositions #4- Perspective - Quarter view, half shaded - foreshortening one side of a face. |
Fusain vine charcoal sticks quick rough sketch-
Studies - Figure 3 |
| ♦ Sketching Compositions #3 - Frontal and symmetry. Drawing shades and shadows concentrating value relationship. |
Fusain vine charcoal sticks quick rough sketch-
Studies - Figure 2 |
| ♦ Sketching Compositions #2 - The heart face composition, drawing studies from photos. Values of shades and shadows. |
Charcoal portrait modelling in vine charcoal quick sketch -
Studies - Figure 1
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| ♦ Sketching Compositions #1- Perspective - Quarter view, half shaded - foreshortening one side of a face. |
