Practice

Charcoal Portrait

objective

To become familiar and confident with the medium of charcoal and drawing a portrait capturing a likeness.

Student credit for the image on the left:

Mac Ellingson 2021-2022

EHS Student Examples

EHS Student Practice Charcoal Portrait

Step 1: Choose a Reference Image

20th CENTURY Artists

print outs exist in my file bins in the supply closet.

Famous People and WASHINGTONIANS

print outs exist in my file bins in the supply closet.

Step 2:

Apply your charcoal practice with the proko tutorials to create your drawing using vine charcoal and charcoal pencils

See the sight lines drawn lightly first using vine charcoal? Vine Charcoal is very forgiving and brushes away quickly.

After you find the appropriate proportions then you add value and contrast using charcoal pencils.

Tools:

12" x 18" Gray Bogus Paper or Toned Mixed Media Paper
Vine Charcoal
Med & Soft Charcoal Pencils
Red Generals sharpener to sharpen charcoal pencils- don't use electric
White Charcoal- But Sparingly and only at the very end. Try not to mix with black charcoal or it will turn blue and be a color temperature shift and not a value shift.
Compressed Charcoal sticks (can get really really dark)
Paper towels to smudge and blend
Kneaded Eraser for subtractive drawing
Printed Reference Image
Scrap Paper for Experimentation or to keep your drawing clean

Quality Grade Rubric

Commitment to Quality (25pts)

Were you focused and committed to doing your best work during class time, or were you frequently reminded to focus on your work?

Proportions (25pts)

Did you use the resources provided to sketch out your proportions so the features were in proportion with themselves?

Value & Contrast (25pts)

Is there a nice range of value transitions, highlights, shadows? Are you getting your darks dark, and your highlights bright so we can see your work clearly and from further away? Are you avoiding living in gray?

Charcoal Application (25pts)

Are you exploring various kinds of marks? Is your work consistent/ unified, or if they are very different there's a reason for it. (ie: emphasis)

What Could be Improved?

2D Art: Practice Portrait: What Could Be Improved?

Reflection

Copy of Copy of Practice Frontal Portrait Reflection No Grid

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