Charcoal Drawing 2 Male Portraits and Profile - The Basics, by Steve Carpenter - 2085

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In this video Steve provides two portrait demonstrations, one frontal and the other is profile. The basics of portrait drawing are explored in this two pose investigation of a bearded male model.

Index

00:00:12 - Begin portrait one, check your charcoal, quick sketch for scale, lay in your horizontal and vertical

00:01:13 - Getting scale from the eye, details of the eyes

00:03:54 - Rendering the nose, tilt, tip, wedge form, nostrils

00:05:40 - Cast shadow and half tone - eyes, less is more

00:06:15 - Mouth, chin, defining the head in space

00:08:01 - Ear placement and definition, add second ear for a change of pace

00:09:10 - Adding the hair

00:10:03 - Putting on the beard

00:14:37 - Cast shadow on the neck

00:14:51 - Finishing the hair

00:15:38 - Etching highlights with an eraser, finding the planes

00:18:10 - Emphasizing the dark values, finding edges, keeping it simple

00:21:40 - Going to the universe, marrying the foreground and background

00:23:16 - Begin the profile portrait, the basic form line, scale from the nose, profile outline

00:25:34 - Placement of the eye

00:27:49 - Finding the skull, placing the ear, neck, hair

00:29:38 - Adding the hair mass and beard

00:31:02 - Defining the planes in the face with half tones

00:32:06 - Etching highlights with an eraser