Charcoal Portrait Drawing - another one of my lessons real time (with nice relaxing music)
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- Опубліковано 25 сер 2024
- This is one of my lessons which I do 3 times a week. The focus of this was to capture the expression
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Amazing Well done and thank you
Tony I, recently found your channel and was so inspired I started drawing with a blunt charcoal as I was too tired to sharpen the pencil , it was late at night. I I was amazed how happy I was with the results. My question is, do you seal your portraits with a varnish spray? I cant wait to find nice paper and sharpen my charcoal and get going on this fantastic time saving technique. Thank you.
I use hairspray to fix my drawings 🙏
Thank you.@@TonySwaby
Tony it’s always a pleasure to watch your videos thanks for sharing
Thank you I like to follow but the original picture is to much of an angle to see
These lessons are for my students and they are supplied with the actual reference :)
Stunning
Hi Tony . Love watching you work, it’s really inspirational , and refreshing. Would like to see your face on camera, we only see your hand and arm . Ps . Do you use a fixative after you finish your work.
Check my other vids I'm on coupleof them. I use hairspray to fix my drawings 🙏
@@TonySwabyThank you.
I can’t wait to take your courses!!! Out of the many videos on UA-cam, and believe me, I’ve watched them all!!! Yours is the only ones the resonates with me!!! Doe you have instagram? I would love to correspond
Yes: instagram.com/thejoyofportraiture/
Ok so how do we get in on these lessons?
One thing that teachers never discuss is that as humans we are utterly fascinated with capturing beauty, but often ugliness is not mentioned, DaVinci was also fascinated with drawing these portraits, because as humans for us , we are attracted to either perfect beauty or true ugliness or what we perceive as ugliness , usually bad symmetry. Anything in between is mundane, and for us humans, artists,mediocrity is not interesting ! Many people are not aware of one of Davinci’s teacher a man named Verochio who is said to have been Ugly as sin, but yet he was the main engineer who was able to construct and put in place the basilica dome ! I wouldn’t mind hearing your take on this subject. My guess is that your audience are highly intelligent amateur artists who may have delved deeply into a lot of these subjects and are looking for the truth or drawing path to begin, improve etc.. and I guess we’ve found it!
I don't know much about Da Vinci only what I've seen (obvs :). I would imagine that to reach such high levels of creativity he didn't have to worry about the rent. Also that society wasn't so down on people with creative abilities as it is now. Regarding "ugliness" I'm not sure it's anything more than perception. The beauty that artists replicate is often superficial and I see great portraits of "beautiful" people that are nothing more than a layer of paint skilfully applied. It's why I focus on the essence of my subjects. Its' what drives my choice of subject and how I capture them. I'm reminded of the saying "it is the job of art to show the beauty in reality" and to do that you don't need great skill, you need humanity :)