Keep Paper Covered. In rubbing on charcoal, and before using the stump, be sure to cover the paper well, so that very little rubbing will spread the tone into an even mass. No matter how much charcoal is put on at first, the superfluity can be taken off with a rag. On the other hand, if there is not enough and one is tempted to rub the surface too hard, the paper becomes rotten and spoiled.
It is even more necessary than when using the pencil to avoid letting the hand rest directly on the paper; have a sheet of clean writing paper to place underneath the hand.
In blocking-in, or when drawing long, sweeping lines, the hand should not be steadied upon the paper as in writing, but the pupil should try to acquire freedom of handling by practice, resting the hand upon the paper only when absolutely necessary, as in drawing fine details or when great precision is required.
Charcoal Sketch. Use tinted paper in making this sketch (Fig. 4), a gray tint being preferable. If tinted paper is unobtainable, use the stump or cloth according to previous directions, covering the entire surface of the paper as evenly as possible with a medium dark tint of the charcoal. Outline the details and put in the sky and sky reflections in the water. Next put in the heavy masses, such as the house at the left,
and a boat with its reflection. Then the solid black and sharp details, such as the windows of the house, the spars of the boat, etc. If tinted paper is used, make the high lights, including the moon, by means of white chalk. If white paper is used, take out the high lights with a pointed rubber or bread.
The moon is especial!}- adapted as a leading- motif in charcoal drawing, and for this reason so many moonlight scenes are introduced into the exercises in this chapter.
Pastel Painting
Pastel painting is akin to -working with colored chalks or crayons. Pastels are soft enough "to be powdered under the linger and graduated and blended by means of stumps. The latter is applied to cigar-shaped rolls of leather or paper, especially made for the purpose. Pastels lend themselves readily to the painter- who desires to produce quick effect. They require no elaborate preparation and, unlike water-color work, may he interrupted and resumed at will.
Sections
- Action Drawing
- Advice To Teachers
- Beginners Instructions
- Blocking In
- Clay Modeling
- Copying By Triangulation
- Decorative Ornamental Art
- Drawing From Nature
- Early Exercises
- Elementary Lines
- Elementary Perspective
- Expression Emotion
- Foreshortening
- Geometrical Form
- How To Draw Animals
- How To Draw Cartoons
- How To Draw Charcoal Crayon
- How To Draw Flowers
- How To Draw Women Men Children
- Lettering
- Light And Shade
- Materials For Drawing
- Models Measurements Proportions
- Outlines For Beginners
- Paper Folding Cutting
- Pen And Ink Drawing
- Principles Of Composition
- Simple Story Pictures
- Solid Black Effects
- Stimulating Imagination
- Tracing Transferring
- Two Handed Exercises