Class goals:
- Practicing expressive portraits in your sketchbooks
- Observing reference photos to create fresh characters
- Learning how to use charcoal to find the emotion and expression in your characters
- Gaining confidence through practice.
First project:
Second project:
Supply list:
- Black Pitt Pen (S) but you can substitute with any drawing tool
- Willow charcoal
- Compressed charcoal
- Kneaded eraser
- Mechanical eraser by Tombow, the rectangular shaped eraser works best
- Sketchbooks (I’m using a Kraft sketchbook and one of those cheap ones with the linen cover. As long as your paper feels a little rough to the touch, you’re good to go!)