fscking charcoal
Oct. 1st, 2002 10:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
anotheranonI never had any idea how difficult it was to draw a human nose - just the nose - until tonight.
We were doing a value/shade/depth exercise using plaster casts of various parts of Michelangelo's David, so it's not like I was having to draw an ugly nose - quality nose, this. But my instructor's insistence that we use charcoal pencils was driving me nuts.
I freely acknowledge that charcoal is a more flexible medium, it's softer, it's easier to erase, it's easier to get a variety of lines from fine to soft. Having said all this, I hate charcoal. I find it almost impossible to make a light sketch because they ARE so soft that no matter what I do I seem to leave heavy marks and clumsy shading. And smudging is inevitable. I got my best results when I cheated and used a regular graphite pencil, but my instructor insists.
I'll try and practice before next week, but I still overwhelmingly prefer regular pencil.
We were doing a value/shade/depth exercise using plaster casts of various parts of Michelangelo's David, so it's not like I was having to draw an ugly nose - quality nose, this. But my instructor's insistence that we use charcoal pencils was driving me nuts.
I freely acknowledge that charcoal is a more flexible medium, it's softer, it's easier to erase, it's easier to get a variety of lines from fine to soft. Having said all this, I hate charcoal. I find it almost impossible to make a light sketch because they ARE so soft that no matter what I do I seem to leave heavy marks and clumsy shading. And smudging is inevitable. I got my best results when I cheated and used a regular graphite pencil, but my instructor insists.
I'll try and practice before next week, but I still overwhelmingly prefer regular pencil.
