Charcoal Drawing Portraiture with the sandpaper

Continuing the experimental technique with 300gsm watercolour paper Wolf Charcoal Pencils and 1000grit sandpaper

[@KateN-yo2cl]

Great drawing!

[@thequietmystic]

@@KateN-yo2cl bless you, thanks very much

[@vardohr]

I would like to learn more about that technique, so with sandpaper you can blur and bring out light too?

[@thequietmystic]

Yes indeed. It takes practise and a sensitive touch. The paper thickness also helps to resist the abrasion

[@jimqartworks]

wow! any way check this artist, instagram.com/anniemurphyrobinson/ Annie Murphy Robinson - Her charcoal is a mix of compressed char-kole not pastel charcoal. (Look for brown undertones or blue not silvery gray), vine 3mm Winsor & Newton, and compressed Winsor & Newton extra-soft. Her sandpapers vary, but she tends to use a 400grain, 1″ square-folded. Her composition is block-in: using charcoal to create dark, medium and light areas, then using a small electric sander with 400 grain sand paper. She sands the entire surface of the paper, removing sizing and opening the weave of the paper’s texture. She always starts with the eyes.

[@Nemesios777]

Art is not making a photograph picture as close to an original photograph picture. Its good practice and you learn through the obstacles for example the analogies of the body (small head-big hands-small hands-big head etc etc) and the technics. Its good to imitate and learn the analogies of the human body until you reach your own character. The Art unlocks when you bypass these obstacles.

[@jimqartworks]

@@Nemesios777 good and amazing point, but every artist has his own style, process, interpretation and view, Annie Murphy Robinson interpret the picture in her own style and that her personal interpretation.

[@dbArt7]

@@Nemesios777 Bullshit! Plain and simple. It's like saying what is and what isn't life. It just IS. There's never was and never will be "rights" and "wrongs".

[@KateN-yo2cl]

@jimqartworks That's really interesting, thanks. Do you know what paper she uses? It would have to be quite robust to tolerate an electric sander.