http://www.wattsatelier.com/home.html These guys are using charcoal [pencils],not charcoal sticks....pencils with charcoal. However, Watts Atelier emphasizes holding your charcoal pencil differently then when you hold a regular pencil to write with, so there's still a technique involved. [ QUOTE ] Holding the Drawing Tool…
pior- I am not sure if you are sticking to charcoal pencils only but I tend to like pencils and blocks of charcoal for just what u mentioned. I grind up a little amount off a block into a power and then get dirty with my fingers and eraser. Tends to let me control depth and contrast more gradualy. I am sure you feel the…
charcoal penciles give me the hibbi gibbiz! its like putting ur front teeth into a popstickal or slowly tearing a piece of paper or scratching ur nails on well u know dont like it
These new ones are excellent Pior - the first one is my favourite, very well done. The lines are very nice, and a there's good sense of weight to the model. Makaveli: Nice pencil work!
This was done at a 3 hour uninstructed workshop class.....and I still don't know how to render with charcoal pencil, according to my instructors. So that gives you an idea of what kind of talent I go up against.
Nice use of value Pior, You really get the full range out of those. Makaveli, lots of nice work there. I would recomend getting an ebony, or 8b pencil to really add some darks in there. Noserider, looking good, but I would say the biggest thing I notice, is that you aren't really popping the forms. Try to get more value…
Hey Mak, smooth stuff you have here. That looks like some good practice! About construction lines and all, well I guess it depends. When drawing from photos and/or while concept sketching I think its the way to go... But when it comes to life drawing my instructor tends to emphasize on what you feel about the model,…