Tommy: An online portrait drawing session
Lydia Cecil
Join Lydia for this 1- hour portrait session with model Tommy, focusing on simplifying shadows and building form through soft and sharp edges. You’ll mass the shadows into clear shapes before refining the light–shadow edge to bring structure and expression to the portrait.
Materials used: Nitram charcoal, grey putty rubber, measuring stick and kitchen roll for blending.
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Join Lydia for this 1- hour master copy session, recreating a charcoal study of a horse’s head by Lucy Kemp-Welch. You’ll block in the main forms, build soft shadows and halftones, and explore sharp and lost edges while ...
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Materials used: Willow charcoal, Khadi cotton paper, kneaded rubber.
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