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windowtoart "Drawing": CHARCOAL REVIEW 3  Cylinders   Review 2   Drawing   Choices

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USING COLORED BACKGROUNDS

  Charcoal nicely blends with smooth and textured colored background papers, taking on the base tone of the paper as the background color of the values produced. Here's a quick process review.

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Simple steps are presented on this orange background: light contour sketching with charcoal pencil or white chalk, adding the dark tonal values, and then the white highlight blends. Here are a few studies.

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Tan, beige and dark gray 12" X 18" construction papers are used here.

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flashing arrow     After these reviews we move on to a larger one, Practice 2 with mixed transparent and opaque materials. On we go!

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