Understanding Lighting when Charcoal Drawing

Video Transcript

"Hey there my name is Bill Cotterell on behalf of Expert Village, I like to show you the fundamentals of charcoal drawing. The next subject I like to discuss is the lighting for your topic whether you're choosing to draw something in real life or you're choosing to draw something that is in your mind, or either in a photograph, or something that is generated on a computer screen. What you want to do is always pay attention to how the light interacts with your subject. In this particular case I'm drawing from something that's in my mind. What I want to do is keep in my focus in my thoughts what that lights going to do even though I don't know I have experience of having shadows and what the shadows play like. What you can do is if you're going to use anything that you're going to draw say for instance, say we're going to draw this can, you want to focus on the settles of shading and how they play with the light. As the light comes right onto the piece itself and that translates onto the paper by how you put your circle and you're going to blend these areas out here ever so slightly, so that there's nothing in here and of course darken this here. And you'll notice on the back side of the shape very settles there's always a lighter tone when you get to the end of that."