Charcoal Drawings

Types of Charcoal

• Powdered Charcoal

Powdered charcoal is used to:

•create tonal values

•usually over larger surfaces

•easily erases and can be

•darkened by adding layers.

Types of Charcoal

• Compressed Charcoal

•Powdered with gum binder •round or square sticks •charcoal pencils.

Types of Charcoal

• Vine Charcoal

• * Vine charcoal is willow or linden/Tilia twigs burnt into:

• soft • medium • hard consistencies

Types of Charcoal

• Pure Charcoal

•Very soft

•Very dark tones

•Very messy!

Types of Charcoal

• White Charcoal

– Harder than black charcoal

– Different from chalk

(makes a harder line)

Accessories

• Kneaded eraser

• Gum/Rubber Earser

• Tortillons (blending stump)

TortillonsKneaded Erasers

Elements of Art: Line

• Continuous mark going in any direction

• Lines can show movement, texture, direction, and are expressive

Line

Element of Art: Contrast

• The difference between two things, in this case light and shadow. Extreme contrasts in drawing are called

• Chiaroscuroan Italian term that means “light and dark.” In pictorial arts it refers to a gradual transition of values used to achieve the illusion of how light and shadow interact on three-dimensional forms.

Contrast

• Where is the light source?

• Light source is very important in chiaroscuro- creates ‘drama’

Element of Art: Space

Element of Art: Space

Space

• We want to create a dynamic composition-

• Having it ‘go off the page’ and making the viewer’s eye move around are much more interesting to look at.

Element of Art: Form

• Form refers to the 3D shape the object shows.

• In order to get a 3D form on a 2D surface, you must use shading techniques that trick the eye into seeing an actual form.

Form

Form

Techniques

• Shading/Blending

Techniques

- using dots to create value

- using lines to create value

- using crossed lines to create value

Bone Drawings• For this project, you will have

to while drawing. (You are filling in white areas AND dark areas)

• You will be drawing bones-and you can make them abstract or recognizable.

Bone Drawings

Requirements

• Your bone drawing must be off-center and an interesting composition

• You must make it look 3D

VIdeo

Examples- Eraser Drawings

Examples- Eraser Drawings

Examples- Eraser Drawings

Examples- Eraser Drawings