Charcoal Pencil Techniques

Charcoal Pencil Techniques

Objective: You will learn various charcoal pencil

techniques for creating value in order to create a realistic observational drawing.

DRILL: Draw the garlic bulb with charcoal pencil and shade it. Take 5

minutes.

Anthony Walker, charcoal and graphite

Techniques

• Light / dark contour lines• Value with hatching• Value with mark-making- cross-hatching,

stippling, scribbling, creative.• Contrast • Gray/ color background with black and white• Apply techniques= eggs, garlic, popcorn• onions…Lollipop or bag or pumpkin or grapes…

Homework~ Draw food, any materials.Document what you eat at least twice.

Bring in objects for your chalk still life

• Food• Candy• Bottles/ cans• Trash • Remnants of food• Look in cafeteria and (dare I say- trash cans)• Drinks• FOOD, FOOD, FOOD• Your carbon footprint.

Joe Bradney

Carbon Footprint

Our lesson~You are what you eat OR You are what you ate.

“Stalking”

• NorineKevolic.com

Myrna WacknovCalifornia artist

Goals for today:

1. Draw the garlic on your own and shade it.

2. Learn light and dark lines.3. Draw egg with Miss Gauger- no smudging4. Learn how to create a medium shade

background and how to use white and black to shade the popcorn.

Techniques

• Light / dark contour lines• Value with hatching• Value with mark-making- cross-hatching,

stippling, scribbling, creative.• Contrast • Gray/ color background with black and white• Apply techniques= eggs, garlic, popcorn• onions…Lollipop or bag or pumpkin or grapes…

How Can I Live Without You by Chidi Okoye

Kenneth Ridgeway