Charcoal-Drawing-Female-2 Overlapping Portraits by Steve Carpenter - 2083

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Description

Steve Carpenter overlaps two portraits creating an abstracted form. The basics of portraiture are addressed in each exercise. Techniques for the use of form, line, and value to create interest and drama are explored.

Index

00:00:08 - Begin first portrait, discussion and compositional decisions

00:02:00 - Getting scale from and placing the eyes

00:02:40 - Scale from the nose, cast shadows

00:04:30 - Creating halftones

00:05:20 - Finding lights using an eraser

00:06:33 - Refining the portrait

00:08:26 - Discussion - deciding what is essential to the drawing

00:10:37 - Neck form and locating the ear

00:11:15 - Adding the hair form

00:14:20 - Discussion - why spend so much time on the portrait

00:22:06 - Measuring for the figure

00:23:59 - Notes on the hand form

00:26:46 - Form and repetitiveness

00:27:33 - Rough hand form

00:33:54 - Begin the second portrait, placement, scale comes from the nose in a profile drawingt

00:36:18 - Placement of the eye in profile

00:37:19 - Rendering the lips

00:38:34 - Finding the ear, adding the hair

00:39:46 - Importance of changing pace with line

00:41:01 - Adding darks, finding planes of the face, refining the portrait

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