A couple of 25 munute charcoal drawing demos I did yesterday for my classes. We had a cowboy and indian themed day. Charcoal on A3 cartridge paper.
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Charcoal drawing of an American Indian on watercolour paper, 36 x 26 cm.
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Helen Folasade Adu, lead singer of the band Sade.

Inspired from a photograph by Chris Roberts in 1990.

My idea was notably to highlight the strength of contrasts.
I just used
- a 4H graphite pencil,
- a twenty-five years old mechanical pencil whose lead (I suppose that) is a HB one and that I last used when I was a child,
- a stick of compressed charcoal.


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