Erasing to make lighter values is easily accomplished with an eraser and moving the charcoal around on the surface is effortless. We’ve discussed how easy it is to manipulate it. Why Charcoal is Great for Manipulating ValuesĪs I’ve mentioned charcoal is a great medium for developing values. When we create a drawing, we need to capture the values found on our subject and within the scene we are depicting in a drawing. This is why value is so important to our success. The relationships between the highlights, shadows, and middle values communicate the light to our viewers and in turn – the forms and textures. Lighter values translate as highlights while darker values translate as shadows. And light tells us about the forms and textures. It is the darks and lights that we see, the values, that inform us of the light within the scene. Value also influences other elements such as form, texture, space, and color. The reason why value is so important is because it is the way we see and understand the world around us. Value is defined as the darkness or lightness of a color. I definitely agree with this and consider value to be more important than line, color, or form. Most artists will argue that value is the most important of the seven. Value is one of the seven elements of art. We can stop at any point (or at any stage) and the drawing may still feel “finished”, just with less details. This means that the drawing develops in stages with each stage being slightly more refined than the last. The details gradually emerge as we work the material. We can effortlessly manipulate the vine charcoal on the surface, moving it around with a blending stump, erasing, and refining with additional applications.Īnd just like with an oil painting, we start looser and then refine the drawing as we develop it. The same is true for charcoal, due to its powdery nature. With oils, it’s easy to create transitions in values. Vine charcoal is easily erased and also easily covered with additional applications of charcoal. In other words, these painting mediums are rather forgiving. Opaque painting mediums like acrylics and oils allow the artist to cover applications and make changes easily. This is partly due to the rich darks that charcoal produces, but also because of the forgiving nature of the medium.Ĭharcoal is clearly a drawing medium, but we can think like a painter when we use it. Some mediums result in images that feel more finished or refined, while others are considerably looser.Ĭharcoal, the medium used in this episode, is a looser medium but is capable of producing a surprisingly “finished” look in a short period of time. Because of the time constraint, the drawings are closer to “sketches”. Gettin’ Sketchy is a live broadcast on YouTube where we attempt to create a drawing in 45 minutes. This episode aired live on YouTube on March 3, 2021. Gettin’ Sketchy – How to Draw a Landscape with Charcoal – Season 3 Episode 7
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