Tag: charcoal

Student Portrait Incomplete

charcoal sketch drawing of a face

The process of drawing the face of a college student. I’m describing the face with charcoal. I’m using charcoal because I want to sketch my features before I put some value. In this picture, Also half of the hair is drawn out. The jacket has little shapes such as the flowers to give an idea of what the jacket should look like. I try to make sure to put value with the light and shadow to try to make it as realistic at it can. Her expression is confusion around her environment. A lot of work must be done to capture the third dimension art style.

Still Life with Trash Items

This still life consisted of a hard block with a few items on top of them. The entire is covered with a white cover with the items on top of it. The items draw consisted of paper towel empty roll, crushed can, and a small white ball. The line is constructed and waved to show the image of the white cover. There are a shadow and light within the can and ball with the white sides and black charcoal. There is a shadow of the ball and paper towel on the right side of the white block. There is a small shell drawn on the downside of the block. The drawing value shading feels like it came from a dark room the drawing of a still life might need a few improvements with the light and shadow to make it a bit realistic.

Still Life with Basic Items

This is a Still Life where the whole background is the middle color with the charcoal. In this still life, we have a skull, a skeleton bone, and a wine bottle. There are a few waved lines that represented the white that is underneath the still life. The Skull has a small crack on top of the cranial area. The teeth of the skull almost look like the teeth of a cartoon character. The bone also looks like a dog bone. The back skull is shaded darker and the part that is next to the jaw. The still life might look a little better with a little touch of shadow and light from each item if the still life was at a different angle. Overall, the still life drawing has most of its features so far.

Negative Space Still-Life

A collection of white shapes against a solid black background. The shapes include a book, a small round fan with a cord, and a pineapple. The small round fan and pineapple are stacked on top of the book, so the shapes blend together to create one larger shape.

This drawing was done of a still-life of a pineapple, small round fan (with a cord hanging off of the side), and a water bottle sitting on top of a book. Because all of the objects are placed near each other, the negative space style of the drawing makes them appear to be one large object. To create this drawing, I set up the still-life and did a rough sketch of the objects before carefully outlining the existing exterior lines of the objects. I then filled in the negative space with compressed charcoal to “black-out” the negative space of the scene. The most prominent concept in this drawing is negative and positive space, but aspects of basic shapes were also used to create the final product.

Drawing: Still Life

In this art piece I was assigned to draw the still life in front of me during class. Still life in my own words is different forms of life (objects) that is placed in a certain position with a source of light reflect off of it. In this piece I highlighted the different detects of light throughout each object. In this piece there is a cylinder object, a bottle, blocks, a circular ball, and a seashell. I used back shapes, and a biasic outline to create the physical form of each object. Then I used charcoal (2B), white Conte crayon, and vinyl charcoal to highlight the different levels of light being bounce of each object. This is why some objects are darker and lighter in certain spots. Materials: - Vinyl Charcoal - White Conte Crayon - Napkin ( smudging) - Drawing Paper Pad - White Charcoal - Vinyl Charcoal - Charcoal (2B)
In this art piece I was assigned to draw the still life in front of me during class. Still life in my own words is different forms of life (objects) that is placed in a certain position with a source of light reflect off of it. In this piece I highlighted the different detects of light throughout each object. In this piece there is a cylinder object, a bottle, blocks, a circular ball, and a seashell. I used back shapes, and a basic outline to create the physical form of each object. Then I used charcoal (2B), white Conte crayon, and vinyl charcoal to highlight the different levels of light being bounce of each object. This is why some objects are darker and lighter in certain spots.
Materials:
Vinyl Charcoal
White Conte Crayon
Napkin ( smudging)
Drawing Paper Pad
White Charcoal
Vinyl Charcoal
Charcoal (2B)

Charcoal Still Life

This is a charcoal drawing of a spray bottle, next to a small, white bowl on top of a rectangular foam block. Bellow the foam block is a sea shell with a fake bone next to the shell.

A charcoal drawing done with charcoal and blending. This was my first time working with charcoal in this way and I tried my best to capture what I was seeing. I first covered the paper completely in charcoal. I then blended and outlined with charcoal and an eraser as necessary as well as blending with my fingers just a bit. I tried to limit using my hands and fingers as the oils from fingers and hands can make erasing and correcting more difficult in the long run. I also included a blending chart in the corner for reference. I tried to blend and shade based on what I was seeing in the still life itself as well as making the outlines dark but not so dark that it wasn’t realistic.

I am hoping to improve over time and I realize it’s not a perfect drawing. However, it is a first attempt and it is not expected to be perfect on the first try.

Portrait of Estelle

This is a graphite and charcoal portrait drawing of a female classmate.
This is a graphite and charcoal drawing of my classmate Estelle. It’s a portrait, so she is facing me straight on. I started the drawing by sketching out basic facial features and doing some shading to establish some 3-dimensionality. Then I began to add finer details both in shading and subtle lines that make Estelle look more like herself.

Portrait: Trinity

This image is a portrait of my classmate, Trinity. For the basic face form I started out with an circle for a realistic , circular form of the cranium , and then I added in the chin. I used vinyl charcoal throughout this whole piece. The hardness of the vinyl charcoal around the eyes was to highlight her eye shape, and bring the piece to life. Creating the eyes was a challenging , but I started them with equidistant from the top of the head to the bottom of the chin (you can see the line of measurement). I carried on to thre nose . I started with a circle for the point of the nose, then extended the nose with a tent shape. To make the line less harsh I used a paper towel to lighten the ash of the charcoal. The corner of each lip had to be aligned with the middle of eachy line , and I added a shadow to the top lip to give a sense of plumpness. The last step was adding the hair and value to the face. It's important use the hair as a guide to her face structure and ears. Also, addimg value helped the picture look more realistic based on a face having different natural shadows( value) , and highlights little features in her face. Materials: - Vinyl Charcoal - Drawing paper Pad - 2H Drawing Pencil (for measurements) -Kneaded Eraser
This image is a portrait of my classmate, Trinity. For the basic face form I started out with an circle for a realistic , circular form of the cranium , and then I added in the chin. I used vinyl charcoal throughout this whole piece. The hardness of the vinyl charcoal around the eyes was to highlight her eye shape, and bring the piece to life. Creating the eyes was a challenging , but I started them with equidistant from the top of the head to the bottom of the chin (you can see the line of measurement). I carried on to the nose . I started with a circle for the point of the nose, then extended the nose with a tent shape. To make the lines less harsh I used a paper towel to lighten the ash of the charcoal. The corner of each lip had to be aligned with the middle of each line , and I added a shadow to the top lip to give a sense of plumpness. The last step was addition of the hair and value to the face. It’s important use the hair as a guide to her face structure and ears. Also, adding value helped the picture look more realistic based on a face having different natural shadows , and still contributing to highlighting little features in her face.

Materials:
Vinyl Charcoal
Drawing paper Pad
2H Drawing Pencil (for measurements)
Kneaded Eraser

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