Sunday, July 18, 2010

Beautiful



I found this accidentally yesterday. I keep replaying it for the music, but also for the technique and the beauty of the charcoal portrait. Looks like vine and/or compressed charcoal. Notice how the artist blocks-in roughly and darkly, then "washes" the face, then drags a rag to soften and sink-in certain areas like the hair, and then restates dark areas, and then lifts off the highlight areas, bringing the visage to life, and then the final details. I'm guessing it was about a 20-minute drawing from a live model, but I don't know. If you go to the artist's YouTube channel, he has several more videos.

1 comment:

Esly Carrero said...

nice technique!

Draw,
Shade,
Rub,
Darken,
Shade again,
Highlights,
Darken Detail,
Outline.

Cool.