How to Sketch a Charcoal Drawing

Video Transcript

"OK, so next we're going to start ruffing out our space and measuring our still live. A really easy way to do that is to take your charcoal or pencil and hold it up, close one eye, and see pretty much how wide is your still life compared to how tall it is. You want to try to fill up your paper. You don't want to have a huge piece of paper and start drawing really tiny. Really use your space. For me the still life is about half as tall as it is long. So I?m going to make sure that I can fo all the way to my edges and fill the paper. So what I like to do is take sort of the edge and make really light marks as to where your objects are going to be so that way you don't start drawing and notice Oh, I wish this was over to the left two inches or whatever. You know you tend to get excited and you start drawing and then you look at it and you want to change it. So just take and mark out roughly and very lightly so you that can change it if you want to where your objects are going to be. So actually what you might like to do here, even if it doesn't actually exist there, just put in an eyeline or sort of an edge of a table so that you have a reference to where your fruit is so that it don't look like the objects are floating."