In this course, through 9 different practices you will learn how to create varied quality of lines and textures into your art by using variety of applicators.
You will practice on observing and reflecting the world around you through creating gestural and textural lines and patterns over different bases.
In course 2, you will practice on one the main principals of visual arts; visual perception. Through considering different aspects of visual perception, you will gain the ability to interpret the surrounding environment into lines and tonal values. All practices have designed to structure drawing skill set, helps you to draw what you see.
The approach in this course is morphological study of simple elements of nature. Through series of practices, you will learn how to simplify and analyze the forms that are most frequently found in living nature and manipulates them as well as their relationship in order to develop the idea through applying charcoal techniques.
Charcoal is on of the highly reversible drawing medium. In a same drawing you can use different forms of charcoal together. Whether they are applying directly or indirectly, very different effects can be achieved. Drawing lines, outlines, shapes, essential points, tones manipulation, and creating textures in addition to blending techniques and creating highlights are the main charcoal drawing characteristics you will learn in this course. Throughout the practices we’re going to use several different types of charcoal.
Drawing is learning to see. As we look more closely, we began to recognize shapes and relationships accurately; we engaged with the subject and we began to read and interpret the marks at the drawing itself, then we allow the subject and the marks of the drawing to guide us through the process. This is the beginning of drawing and learning to see. A line is not really important because it records what you have seen, but because of it will lead you on to see.
In visual arts lines have highest descriptive potential, and they can indicate forms as well as movement. You will learn to create textures, light, weight, and space reflecting your sensation through applying many different kinds of lines in drawing in order to make a better connection between your artistic talent and viewer’s feeling.
In course one in addition to cover basic drawing media; graphite, you will explore different methods using drawing materials in order to experiment combination of alternative media creating textures and gestures with lines.Gesture and texture are two main characteristics of line. Gestural lines concentrate their energy around specific points or areas. At this level, gestural movements can be descriptive, precise, and direct, or capable of defining the objects characteristically soft, blended, and airy, able to convey faint atmosphere.
Gestural lines can be actual lines you see when looking closely, or using darker or thicker lines where there are more shades, or you can add in extra lines to represent any observed texture in nature. Perceiving textures remind us of a tactile feeling and experiences such as heavy-light, coarse-smooth, soft-hard, rigid-flexible, flat- rugged, broken, folded, cut, porous, wrinkled, pierced, sharp, striated, crackled, col-warm, dry-wet, even-uneven, consistent-inconsistent, liquid-viscous, solid-misty. In this course, through 9 different practices you will learn how to observe varied quality of lines and textures in nature transferring them into your art practices via using variety of applicators in order to recreating those lines and textures.
How does the structure of anything alive relate to the variety of lines?
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Creating lines by modifying a pressure on applicator
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Transferring patterns and textures into paper
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Creating lines through modifying pressure on applicator desaturating the paint
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Combining graphite and inks creating lines
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Creating rough texture by overlapping lines through transmitting inks of sewing thread
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Creating rough texture by transferring texture from aluminium into the base
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Overlapping hatched textures
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Mixing and overlapping graphite, charcoal, candle, and glue
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In this course, the practices are offered through 8 sessions/weeks in order to cover 5 main aspects of perception in drawing; the perception of edge, the perception of space, the perception of relationship, the perception of light and shadow, and the perception of whole.
By considering the perception of edges you will practice on sighting and measuring techniques studying on measuring proportions through still life drawing. Then you can compare the angles and axes of viewed objects with those of your drawing.
Seeing the line dynamics and following the main direction of each object will help you to create a space in drawing. Particularly, this is a perfect method of measurement that helps you to improve the accuracy of what you draw.
Through considering circular movements in the subject/model, you will practice to analyse a model into oval forms, which helps you having better perception in relationship between the components forming a picture/drawing. You will learn how to use your drawing pencil to compare and record the size of the object on your drawing surface.
One of the main lessons in this course is introduction to light and shadow in drawing. Considering the light and shadow will help you to find a proper position for applying relevant values of grey tones into each unit of the composition based on the viewed object. Then you will find how this notion is strongly related to the elements of movement you can recognize in any piece of art.
Trough the final practice in this course, you will combine all sighting techniques together shaping the entire composition. By following all those rules, you are able to apply your own perception of the whole to create a landscape scenery applying lumograph graphite techniques.
Combination of three object; considering proportions through still life drawing
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Considering lines dynamics depicting movement in the subject through still life drawing
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Considering the main line of movement
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Considering circular movements in the subject analysing a model into oval forms
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Drawing from memory
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Practice on the line weight through cardboard model making. The function of values creating the illusion of a third dimension
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Practice on shading through compositing
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Practice on overlapping random lines forming shapes in drawing based on viewed scenery
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When you analyze any picture or any natural scenery into simple forms, potentially each form expresses different feeling and you will learn how to transmit that experience from what you see into drawing using charcoal sticks.
In visual art form is referred to two realities: the external appearance of objects; their “body”, and the mental model that we have of them; their “soul”. These two realities always go together like two sides of a coin.
All practices are designed encouraging you to dedicate hours to observation and analysis of the world that surrounds you. Then you will strive to capture that which is hidden behind every form, modifying your perception your environment, making a better connection with nature enriching the culture of this relationship.
Draw the silhouette; the Mass, to define the spatial limits of objects
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Draw not only the outside edge of the form but also internal the characteristics, so that a few well drawn inside outlines can explain the whole form as well as expressing the volume
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Composition with fruits, following the main structure of the model. Depicting nature using cylinder, the sphere, and the cone
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Composition with Trunks, Branches, and Roots, following the main structure of the model. Focusing on the gesture and the rhythm of their lines
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Composition with structural organic forms based on arcs and ellipses to communicate their movement. Animals moves in different ways. It is necessary to observe the model very attentively, making an effort to capture their volumes and gesture
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Converting three dimensions to two dimensions offering an opportunity to create new forms
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Creating flat cutouts from the last drawing; session 6, rearranging those new forms to create a new composition
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Transmitting outlines into drawing. Extracting forms through manipulating light and shadows by referring to the source image; session 6, creating an atmospheric drawing
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Willow and Vine charcoal are the most basic form of drawing charcoal purely natural. They are carbonized wooden sticks without any binder that can be very brittle and powdery to use for drawing. This means that the charcoal can be easily smoothed out and erased, which is one of the main advantages of this kind as a drawing medium.
Charcoal powder is grinned substance made from willow or vine charcoal. You can apply it with a brush or all kinds of other tools, to create a beautiful soft look or to tone larger areas of your drawing.
Compressed charcoal is darker than regular willow and vine charcoal. The ranges from hard to soft, depending on the ratio of charcoal powder to binder: the harder the charcoal stick, the less charcoal powder and hence the lighter the tonal value. Compressed charcoal adheres better to the paper than regular willow or vine charcoal.
Charcoal pencils are thinner than the other types of charcoal ideally you can have more control working on details. They are comparable to compressed charcoal, and just like compressed charcoal they usually come in a range from hard to soft.
Shading with Charcoal Powder, manipulating the grey values by applying blending tools
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Drawing with vine charcoal, shading with Charcoal Powder, manipulating the grey values by applying blending tools
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week 1: Adjusting proportions and tonal values referring to a source image
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Week 2: Compressed charcoal and blending techniques
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Week 1: Adjusting proportions and tonal values referring to a source image
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Week 2: Creating texture, extracting light and shadows applying compressed charcoal and blending techniques
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Week 1: Modelling, Study on outlines, forms, proportions, and tonal values
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Week 2: Applying realistic shading and effects making the drawing accurate toward the model
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