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This is my fifth charcoal drawing so far. I disliked the medium at first but I'm starting to enjoy it more and more 😄.

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[-] Bunnylux@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago
[-] BirbSeed@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Ty, I worked hard to get all those hairs in there.

[-] Jakdracula@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago
[-] BirbSeed@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

After the main values were blocked in I erased lines with erasers. Then just back and forth between adding charcoal and erasing to get the right values/textures.

[-] thantik@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

This looks like one of those scanning electron microscope images of a fly's ass or something that just happened to turn out to be a camel.

[-] namosca@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

WHAT! How can you draw precisely with charcoal? Do you have a picture of your instruments?

Can you show the other pictures?

[-] BirbSeed@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Sure I'll post some other drawings eventally. I use a kneeded eraser, an abrasive eraser, a compressed and soft charcoal and a blending stick.

[-] maegul@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

This makes sense. I’m learning to draw and only recently discovered these tools and what can be done with them. It’s almost like sculpture in that your job is to take away (after first drawing the rough image of course).

[-] namosca@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Nice analogy with "sculpture"

[-] Shou@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Camels are such majestic creatures... but maybe not from this angle.

[-] BirbSeed@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Haha I do love the angle. Its so derpy.

[-] The_wild_card@lemmy.today 5 points 1 year ago

You are GOOD

[-] viking@infosec.pub 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

For some reason I opened this picture zoomed in quite a bit, and the shading of the right ear doesn't really differentiate all that much from the rest of the head. If you zoom in into the right half of the face, it looks quite a bit like E.T., and I'm loving it 😁

[-] BirbSeed@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Haha, you're right. Its a very funny angle.

[-] NexiusLobster@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

That's one badass camel

[-] Kaliax@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 year ago

I dig this, very pleasant style and subject.

this post was submitted on 05 Mar 2024
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