Charcoal Drawing Highlights & Shadows

Video Transcript

"Now we're going to get into some highlights and some shadows. This is really what makes your object pop out so this is when you're going to use our light color charcoal. I have a white here and also you are needed a eraser if you need to so we're going to go in and really look at the highlights. Start making our form just pop and just really look at where these highlights are. You can just rough them in because again you can go back and use your blending tool. As you can see that is really starting to look like a round shape so I'll do the apple here. Again you can use the side of your charcoal if it's soft enough and you can get some nice coverage and get some harder highlights. You can also get some softer ones where you are actually blending to like a gray in between here as oppose to a hard white on the side. Again you are going to want to blend all of this in of course but these are sort of the rough highlights here. You really want to get your highlights in there and it will really help your objects pop and look 3 dimensional. So go in and really look and see where those highlights are and get your harder highlights and softer highlights."