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Drawing a Nose with Black Pencils and White Charcoal - Live Drawing Exercise

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This live drawing exercise demonstrates how to draw a nose on toned gray paper using black pencils and white charcoal. It covers observation, value development, blending, skin texture, and layering graphite with other media.

Syllabus

Introduction
Drawing the Nose
Process of Observation
First Line
White Charcoal
Graphite
Media for Graphite
Varnish over Graphite
White Charcoal vs Chalk
Why cover graphite with acrylic medium
Blending stump
Working with values
blackboard chalk
adding freckles
special pencil
map changes
nose
skull
white paper
value scale
caveat
question

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Drawing & Painting - The Virtual Instructor

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    KEIMANI HILL
    This is the best course ever!
    I draw, traced and colored with pastel to make it look like a real person.
    I am willing to learn and improve my skills for the next challenge.
    Thank you.
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