I'm starting to work with a new medium! After a quick trip to Michael's the other day, I ended up buying a pad of black sketch paper, and two white charcoal pencils. I wanted to experiment with drawing a subject on black paper, with a white pencil or ink, but had no idea if it would work or not. So far, I've been very pleased with the results!
So far, the combination of the paper and the charcoal is really fun to work with! It kind of reminds me of drawing on a chalkboard. It's so exciting every time I try a new medium, and it's even more exciting when an experiment or idea works! This is definitely opens up new possibilities for learning a new style of art!
Have you worked with this type of artwork before? Do you have suggestions on the dos and don'ts of white charcoal and/or black paper? Leave a message in the comments! And, if you could share my blog, I'd greatly appreciate it! :) My next post(s) will be the anatomy drawings I mentioned in my previous post.
This was a quick sketch I did to try out the new materials the first night I had them. Some of you may remember, the koi fish is from a watercolor painting I did a while back. The rest is just random doodling.
I put this medium to the test the next day, by trying to draw a picture I found of a Wolverine-Venom character. I sketched it out with a regular pencil and went over it with the charcoal, adding shading and details as I went along.
Have you worked with this type of artwork before? Do you have suggestions on the dos and don'ts of white charcoal and/or black paper? Leave a message in the comments! And, if you could share my blog, I'd greatly appreciate it! :) My next post(s) will be the anatomy drawings I mentioned in my previous post.
Note: I do not own any of the copy-written characters above!!
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