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Charcoal is the quintessential favorite for sketching. It's an infinitely expressive medium with its own language, one that comprises textures, lines, strokes, and tones. Charcoal Drawing provides comprehensive instructions for basic techniques as well as complex renderings. You will learn how to use charcoal, paper, erasers, and fixative to create a variety of subjectsùfrom landscapes and still lifes to faces, figures, and more. And whether you are an experienced artist or just a beginner, the step-by-step drawing exercises will be of great value to you. You'll be amazed at what you can create with this deceptively simple medium.

A long-time favorite for sketching, charcoal is also a very expressive medium. This book teaches both the basic techniques of drawing and how to develop an "artist's eye"--to see the essential elements and ignore the superfluous details. And because the projects advance from simple to complex, there is something for artists at every skill level. o Find a list of the materials needed, from paper and charcoal to erasers and fixative o Learn the language of charcoal: the textures, lines, strokes, and tones that turn shapes into forms and forms into compositions o Develop a drawing from the beginning sketch to the final touches o Follow along, step by step, to create renderings of birds and animals, landscapes, architecture, still lifes, faces, and figures