Lesson 3: Working from a black surface

How can you work with light and dark in a charcoal portrait? We start by making a sketch to explore the proportions and directions you can see in the portrait. It's not just about drawing, but mainly about looking. Then we make a big black area with charcoal on a new sheet as a preparation for the next episode.

Materials

• Charcoal

• Paper

In this episode we look at Portret van Lizzy Ansingh, Thérèse Schwartze, 1902