Friday, 16 May 2014

The Playful Portait in Charcoal

Art in Twenty Minutes
By The Painting and Drawing Channel

The terms we were given before watching his video were the following:
1) Making Note
2) Pushing
3) Modelling
4)Photocopy Mode
5) Describing
6) Not symbols

After watching the video I've come up withe the following meanings for each:
1) Making Note: Make note of the vales, from light to medium to dark. Don't look for details or features yet, just make note of darkness and lightness.
2) Pushing: You're only pushing lightly at first so you can build up that value, you're pushing for shadows and highlights not for details. Loosely pushing. 
3) Modelling: Always working general to specific, don't be too tight on how you draw, focus on your subject as a model of values and not details.
4)Photocopy Mode: View the subject as if they are a black and white photocopy so that you really see and focus on the value shifts and not the details.
5) Describing: You want to accurately map out the value, describe the form without using fine details.
6) Not symbols: Not looking for symbols like features or details, just lightness to darkness.

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