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Drawing-Charcoal-Female Figure-3 Views-Exploring Line, Form, Value

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How line and value work to create form is the subject of this 3 pose charcoal drawing instructional video study. One line alone does not create as much beauty as two lines working together. Combined with value, form has boundaries and turns in space. The same tools used in figurative charcoal work can be applied to any subject. Key concepts in this video are: line quality and meaning, light and dark value, generating interest with shadow pattern, breaking repetitive form, simple forms-making a statement with the least amount of information.

Index

00:00:14 - Beauty and form created with two lines working together

00:01:02 - Line has meaning because it creates form

00:02:04 - Finding form through the use of darks and lights

00:02:25 - The same tools used in figurative work apply to landscape, still life, etc.

00:03:46 - Placing the shoulders

00:04:04 - Looking for visual clues

00:04:45 - Finding the form and scale for the head

00:05:48 - Tips for rendering a foreshortened image

00:06:52 - Near the bone make a nice dark line

00:07:06 - Rendering the knee, keyhole form

00:07:20 - When the form is going away from the viewer, indicate a darker value

00:10:10 - When drawing the breast try to indicate the underlying form of the rib cage

00:10:25 - Round, round, round equals very boing, try employ straighter line

00:12:28 - The importance of developing a good drawing

00:14:00 - Use different types of folds to create beauty

00:14:20 - Indicate for the viewer the chair or stool that the model is sitting on to explain distortion in form

00:16:20 - Use equilateral triangle to find placement of ear

00:18:10 - When drawing folds start on top of the form

00:18:31 - Shaking up the line quality

00:19:46 - Tips for rendering the hand and wrist

00:21:03 - Keep receding side of the face in halftone

00:22:18 - Indicating the mouth form

00:22:40 - Keeping it simple to create a universal drawing

00:24:57 - Do not just copy the model, go to the model to look for beauty

00:28:30 - Draw a centerline in your lower leg to show the general movement

00:29:30 - Going to the universe

00:30:30 - Break monotonous round forms with a linear form

00:33:18 - Using an eraser to create highlights and define form

00:34:00 - Defining form with descriptive line

00:38:00 - Designing with the use of line and dark values

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