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Charcoal Drawing Profile Portrait by Steve Carpenter - 2096

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In this video Steve provides a detailed charcoal drawing demonstration of portraiture in profile. All the basics of portrait drawing are explored. Next a full clothed figure is examined. This portion of the demonstration investigates basic techniques of figure drawing from start to finish.

Index

00:00:12 - Begin the portrait in profile, keep it simple

00:00:40 - Putting in the nose, wedgeform, scale, cast shadow

00:01:27 - Find the eye using the glasses

00:04:41 - Starting the cap, lips, hair, and beard

00:06:48 - What do you want to say

00:11:06 - Begin the full figure, finding the basic composition and establishing scale

00:13:11 - Working the portrait, using the eyes and glasses for scale and personality

00:16:20 - Designing the cap

00:18:42 - Designing the hair, hair is soft

00:20:30 - Creating halftones

00:22:15 - Finding the hand and wrist

00:25:25 - Addressing the legs and feet

00:26:14 - Etching the lights with an eraser

00:31:07 - Emphasizing what is important

00:32:06 - Refining the hands

00:36:36 - Refining the shoes

00:39:52 - Cleaning up the drawing

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