Another day in my daily art habit and I figured I’d talk about layering charcoal over graphite to get a next level of value in your drawings.
Normally charcoal will not stick when trying to apply it over graphite. This is because graphite gets burnished into a sheen when worked, flattening the paper and not giving the charcoal anything to grab onto.
But I found that the Conte’ a Paris sticks can be applied over graphite no matter how hard you burnish it. You will be able see what this looks like in the video and in several parts of the Pocahontas drawing.
That is all I have for today. Use this knowledge with great care though. It’s best to work harder on compressing your value scale than using your materials to try and reproduce life accurately. If you lean to heavily on your materials you will reach your value limits too quickly.
The normal 15 minute warm-up in graphite.
I’m still having a lot of fun with the extended gesture study exercise from the The Natural Way to Draw book. I love using images from stock photos sites also.
Got some great focus on art this morning! Plus I’m using the charcoal over graphite method well in the Pocahontas drawing.
Don’t loose track of time.
Tomorrow I will recommit to checking my schedule every twenty minutes.
