Offering 6,284 videos in 230 categories! ...and 9,756 customer reviews!
Your Account |
Help |
Review this video!
CRAIG NELSON emphasizes logical order while drawing. He compares his drawing process to focusing a photograph. He builds layers of soft lines and swatches of tone then rapidly sharpens his subject with crisp edges and bold darks.
You see Craig Nelson translate angles from his source photo to his paper, as he looks for reference points to guide him. He completes a gentle outline of his subject then dusts in a layer of tone. With tissue and fingertips, Craig diffuses blocks of color to avoid locking in detail too early in the drawing. With his value in place, Craig finishes the drawing with dark charcoal lines and deliberate strokes. He carves out the well worn character of his subject’s face and lifts out highlights with a kneaded eraser. Throughout the workshop, Craig Nelson emphasizes restraint, under doing? each step until he finds the right moment to bring his subject into focus. As he adds last details to the nose and chin, you’ll see this logical, intuitive process come to fruition.
(about 55 minutes)
This video was added to our catalog on March 10, 2006 in Arts & Crafts::Pastel & Charcoal.
Product availability: available now, ships immediately!
The DVD is very good and informative. I would recommend it to any of my friends that are interested in pastel art.
It looks good and I'm just wanting to start out on pastels, just looking for to learn some tonal painting, with only a few colors.
This was a good one! I really felt I learned a lot about building slowly BEFORE you get to details - one of my problems. Will be practicing.
