Charcoal Drawing Basic Techniques:

Learn key charcoal drawing techniques including:

1. Hatching
2. Cross-hatching
3. Scumbling
4. Texture Techniques

With willow and compressed charcoal to develop depth with various mark-making methods and create varied strokes of charcoal, representing natural elements such as trees, rocks, and grass…..

How to Create Contrast and Depth?

1. Create contrast between foreground and background elements
2. Shading distant objects with lighter tones
3. Using willow and compressed charcoal
   
   • • Creating depth through different mark-making techniques
     • Representing natural elements like trees, rocks, and grass with varied charcoal strokes

How To Strategic Shading For Three-Dimensional Effects:

1. Stippling
2. Composition and Perspective
3. Capturing negative spaces

Checklist for understanding landscape composition

1. Creating focal points
2. Symbolizing distance and depth
3. Framing landscape element
4. Capturing negative spaces
5. Understanding landscape shapes and forms

What Observational Skills Are Useful? 

Three techniques are able to capture essence of natural scenes

1. Understanding interactions of light and shadow
2. Studying landscape details
3. Understanding the interplay of light and shade
4. Capturing the essence of natural scenes

Now it’s your turn to try out one of the techniques!