Charcoal Basics for Beginners

Learn to recreate a realistic image from a photograph

4.65 (33 reviews)
Udemy
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English
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Arts & Crafts
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210
students
1 hour
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Jul 2019
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$39.99
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What you will learn

How to recreate a realistic image from a photograph.

Measuring techniques for accuracy.

Charcoal techniques such as shading, lifting highlights, and adding textures.

The types of Charcoal and how to use them.

Description

Welcome to Charcoal Basics for Beginners! In this course you will learn the basics of charcoal drawing. You will learn techniques such as measuring, shading, blending, and creating textures. By the end of the course you will be able to recreate a realistic image from a photograph. I hope you enjoy the course! 

Content

Introduction

Welcome to the Course
Materials

Drawing the Outline

Measuring - Part 1
Measuring - Part 2

Light Values - Vine Charcoal

Light Values: Background
Light Values: Rocks - Part 1
Light Values: Rocks - Part 2

Medium Values - Vine Charcoal

Pulling Highlights
Sand Shadows
Sand Highlights
Rocks Shading

Dark Values - Compressed Charcoal

Dark Layer - Compressed Charcoal

Final Touches

Adding Details
Blending
Sharpening Edges
Adding Modeling
Adding Texture
Adding your Signature
Spray Fixatif (Optional)

Recap

Wrapping Up

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Reviews

Lynne
March 12, 2023
As a complete beginner I found this course was really good showing how to use the charcoal for sketching and blending. Enjoyed it so much and now looking for another course on charcoal to keep my interest in charcoal drawing going.
Belinda
July 5, 2021
The tone of the class is really relaxed/chilled out, but I got so much from it. Super happy with the end product. I feel like I got to know the fundamentals of the medium so much so that I feel comfortable experimenting and trying my own thing already.
Pamela
October 15, 2019
I thought it would be more specific in how to use the charcoal. Especially the different ways charcoal is available, i.e., pencil, vine, etc. Perhaps it would be better if the classes were longer.

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