Everything I know about charcoal drawing in one video
Everything I know about charcoal, in one video. 🤗 If you’re a beginner artist and curious about (or frustrated with?) charcoal - this is for you. After some initial ranting about how awesome charcoal is as an art medium, I’m showing you my workspace and all the materials and tools I use. Then I walk you through my entire charcoal drawing process (lots of crows included), from toning the paper to sealing the finished piece with fixative.
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TIME STAMPS
00:00 - Intro
00:55 - Why I love charcoal
04:24 - My charcoal workstation setup
06:01 - Pan Pastel
06:55 - Vine charcol
07:18 - Charcoal pencils
07:42 - Achieving a “painterly“ look with charcoal
08:14 - Erasers
09:39 - Paper
12:03 - My drawing/painting process (painting a crow in charcoal)
14:58 - Sharpening charcoal pencils
16:57 - How I avoid smudging my charcoal drawings
17:59 - Using spray fixative to seal my drawings
19:34 - How I store my charcoal drawings
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Hi, I’m Louise: a bird loving watercolor & charcoal artist from Sweden. 👋🏻 Subscribe to my channel if you like animal and bird art, drawing tips, watercolor demos and tutorials, art experiments, and personal chats about creativity and the artist’s life. New video every week!
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