How to Add Layers in Charcoal Drawing?

Compressed charcoal is way denser than vine charcoal, and gives richer darks and sharper contrast as a result. Using it on top of a layer of vine charcoal is a bit tricky though, which is what I demonstrate in this video.
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Пікірлер: 96

  • @You1uji
    @You1uji4 ай бұрын

    The masterful understanding of light and contrast by the artist is nothing short of spectacular! This is a Master at work.

  • @incognito3620
    @incognito36202 ай бұрын

    What we are seeing is the exemplary skill of an artist who knows his craft. Being an artist, I just sat and enjoyed the ride. P.s. the music from Desert Planet was amazing as well.

  • @fatoomgierdien110
    @fatoomgierdien1103 ай бұрын

    Absolutely Brilliant‼️👌♥️

  • @vikingmike1126
    @vikingmike11264 ай бұрын

    Beautiful and mesmerizing! Excellent work…!

  • @critical_buckel
    @critical_buckel4 ай бұрын

    Thank you for sharing your process in this beautiful drawing ❤❤

  • @Ibaneddie76
    @Ibaneddie764 ай бұрын

    As far as drawing is concerned it appears to me that charcoal will result in drawings with the most depth without having to overwork the areas where you want the most contrast, I need to try a charcoal drawing it takes a while to flatten solid black forms with lead. This drawing is excellent the light source focusing just behind her eye is very interesting, the piece would be completely different if the light was moved forward an inch or even half an inch. Great job!

  • @BillyGoat-oy7qg

    @BillyGoat-oy7qg

    4 ай бұрын

    3:52

  • @cezarhernandez1499
    @cezarhernandez14993 ай бұрын

    Awesome great skill and patience

  • @niazhannanwatercolors
    @niazhannanwatercolors25 күн бұрын

    Love it 😍 i guess am gonna start some charcoal landscapes! Thanks

  • @EhsanMalekiArt

    @EhsanMalekiArt

    24 күн бұрын

    Thank you Niaz, landscape is a great choice, good luck

  • @sherrymorris5564
    @sherrymorris55644 ай бұрын

    Incredible…truly!

  • @timbo4306
    @timbo43063 ай бұрын

    Amazing Thank you for the upload

  • @dkcorderoyximenez3382
    @dkcorderoyximenez33823 ай бұрын

    Even at 7 minutes, this was a great lesson...

  • @tomharris1252
    @tomharris12524 ай бұрын

    Amazing~~~

  • @sillysausage72
    @sillysausage724 ай бұрын

    Excellent!

  • @prashantinerellapalli
    @prashantinerellapalli2 күн бұрын

    mesmerizing!!

  • @EhsanMalekiArt

    @EhsanMalekiArt

    2 күн бұрын

    thank you

  • @NalesnikiART
    @NalesnikiART2 ай бұрын

    Beautiful

  • @sureshnayak7287
    @sureshnayak7287Ай бұрын

    Nice charcoal job and Grenades on of tone thank U sis

  • @moona4297
    @moona42974 ай бұрын

    ما شاء الله تبارك الرحمن. عمل ممتاز 🥇

  • @ranisketch9363
    @ranisketch93635 ай бұрын

    It's so amazing.. I'll come often and learn a lot.

  • @EhsanMalekiArt

    @EhsanMalekiArt

    5 ай бұрын

    Thank you 👍👍

  • @KathiresanKathiresan-yq9so

    @KathiresanKathiresan-yq9so

    4 ай бұрын

    அழகு அற்புதம் அருமை.

  • @nadinestapler3881
    @nadinestapler38814 ай бұрын

    So interesting.

  • @raminbehjat1503
    @raminbehjat150311 күн бұрын

    عالیه . از همون خطوط اول مشخصه ک چ کار خوبیه

  • @EhsanMalekiArt

    @EhsanMalekiArt

    10 күн бұрын

    سپاس فراون

  • @vazakamaza
    @vazakamaza4 ай бұрын

    Великолепно. Очень вдохновляет.!

  • @mariaokruch5771
    @mariaokruch57714 ай бұрын

    Mistrzostwo świata 👏👍

  • @dystopiaproject
    @dystopiaproject5 ай бұрын

    Bravo ! ❤

  • @livianomuratori2014
    @livianomuratori20145 ай бұрын

    Stupendo!

  • @franciscoreygonzalez9908
    @franciscoreygonzalez99082 ай бұрын

    Maravilloso!.

  • @mariannemarianne7819
    @mariannemarianne78192 ай бұрын

    Génial, superbe ❤ j'adore quel plaisir à regarder 👏

  • @EhsanMalekiArt

    @EhsanMalekiArt

    2 ай бұрын

    🙏🙏

  • @charlescossel7948
    @charlescossel79484 ай бұрын

    Incredible, don't know what else to say

  • @EhsanMalekiArt

    @EhsanMalekiArt

    4 ай бұрын

    thank you

  • @stefanozanchiminifilm6926
    @stefanozanchiminifilm69264 ай бұрын

    Ma sei mitico!!!

  • @endoucheeray7018
    @endoucheeray70184 ай бұрын

    Master of arts! But One question: how did you manage to brush it brighter (3:12) and darker( 3:02) by using the same "finger sweeping technique", but with contract result ??? It looks like magic.

  • @EhsanMalekiArt

    @EhsanMalekiArt

    4 ай бұрын

    thank you very much.. I rub a finger into charcoal powder and use it to darken, and use a clean finger to lighten up values

  • @Anjaney10
    @Anjaney104 ай бұрын

    There's my heart ❤

  • @elhadjoahmed5671
    @elhadjoahmed56714 ай бұрын

    Bravo

  • @user-co3jw7tw7n
    @user-co3jw7tw7n3 ай бұрын

    This is brilliant - thank you. Can you tell us what paper you were working on.

  • @EhsanMalekiArt

    @EhsanMalekiArt

    3 ай бұрын

    thank you ... regular newsprint paper

  • @erictchomitch2288
    @erictchomitch22884 ай бұрын

    Merci, généreux

  • @FRANCOVISINTAINER
    @FRANCOVISINTAINER4 ай бұрын

    Stupendo poeta !

  • @EhsanMalekiArt

    @EhsanMalekiArt

    4 ай бұрын

    Thank you

  • @coolshah1662
    @coolshah16625 ай бұрын

    Good stuff!

  • @EhsanMalekiArt

    @EhsanMalekiArt

    5 ай бұрын

    🙏🙏🙏

  • @coolshah1662

    @coolshah1662

    5 ай бұрын

    @@EhsanMalekiArt Are you from pakistan by any chance? I'm from there, too, and am self-taught. I also dabble in charcoal. It was great that I found your channel.

  • @EhsanMalekiArt

    @EhsanMalekiArt

    4 ай бұрын

    No I'm not, very glad you liked the content 🙏🙏🙏

  • @coolshah1662

    @coolshah1662

    4 ай бұрын

    @@EhsanMalekiArt Keep up the great work!

  • @TNT-km2eg
    @TNT-km2eg4 ай бұрын

    Clever . Cultivating your own competition

  • @renderbaron

    @renderbaron

    4 ай бұрын

    It’s called “sharing knowledge”. A principle of human culture.

  • @VictorLopez-hi3ly
    @VictorLopez-hi3ly3 ай бұрын

    Agregar algo mas significativo a lo dicho por los que presencian este trabajo, es imposible ,solo puedo decir ! Fabuloso ,, el dueño de las sombras y la luz"

  • @DJ-bj8ku
    @DJ-bj8ku4 ай бұрын

    This video has less to do with showing how to add layers than with just showing the evolution of the drawing.

  • @AT-ol2yj

    @AT-ol2yj

    2 ай бұрын

    Yeah. Thought he’d use fixative or something to do actual layers. Was just click bait for a simple drawing.

  • @ManWithoutThePants

    @ManWithoutThePants

    Ай бұрын

    @@AT-ol2yj First layer is done by vine charcoal and then he moves to compressed charcoal and charcoal pencil for darkening areas. That's what it seems to me. I have never seen people using fixative on charcoal drawing before it's finished. Do you have some example of that? I'd like to see how charcoal works when drawn over fixative.

  • @tubecated_development

    @tubecated_development

    12 күн бұрын

    You should watch again and read the description. Watch more carefully.

  • @tubecated_development

    @tubecated_development

    12 күн бұрын

    ⁠@@AT-ol2yj This is multilayered. And far from ‘simple’. You are confusing fixative with skill. If you have the honest capacity for learning then I recommend you read the video description and then watch again, only more carefully.

  • @johnpatmos1722
    @johnpatmos17224 ай бұрын

    How does he remove charcoal (lighten an area) by rubbing his finger?

  • @critical_buckel

    @critical_buckel

    4 ай бұрын

    Sticks to his finger.

  • @JadeLeaf1980

    @JadeLeaf1980

    3 ай бұрын

    It’s vine/willow charcoal - it’s very soft delicate charcoal and it doesn’t stick to the paper very well, it creates a layer of velvety dark dust that just sits lightly on the paper surface and it can be swept away or erased with rubber or kneadable erasers or tissues, fingers, brushes, etc. It’s super easy to manipulate and one of the fastest mediums to work with.

  • @NalesnikiART
    @NalesnikiART2 ай бұрын

    A real artist is noticeable from the first strokes.

  • @EhsanMalekiArt

    @EhsanMalekiArt

    2 ай бұрын

    Thank you

  • @williamstroud9152
    @williamstroud91524 ай бұрын

    This MF was excellent 👏🏿

  • @EhsanMalekiArt

    @EhsanMalekiArt

    4 ай бұрын

    thank you

  • @maartenvanderlaag7701
    @maartenvanderlaag77013 ай бұрын

    what type of paper do you use?

  • @EhsanMalekiArt

    @EhsanMalekiArt

    3 ай бұрын

    regular newsprint paper

  • @maartenvanderlaag7701

    @maartenvanderlaag7701

    3 ай бұрын

    @@EhsanMalekiArt thankyou Ehsan

  • @sketchartist1964
    @sketchartist19642 ай бұрын

    Is that vine charcoal?

  • @EhsanMalekiArt

    @EhsanMalekiArt

    2 ай бұрын

    Yes it is

  • @allanpennington
    @allanpennington4 ай бұрын

    What is the paper? The vine charcoal lifts with no staining at all.

  • @EhsanMalekiArt

    @EhsanMalekiArt

    4 ай бұрын

    Newsprint paper which has a little bit of tooth

  • @allanpennington

    @allanpennington

    4 ай бұрын

    @@EhsanMalekiArt Thanks. I’ve tried various smooth cotton rag for archival purposes but even the vine charcoal doesn’t lift as well as it looks like it does with newsprint. What would give similar results to newsprint that would be acid free and thus archival?

  • @EhsanMalekiArt

    @EhsanMalekiArt

    4 ай бұрын

    @@allanpennington Strathmore and Arches both produce archival paper for charcoal, the only catch is you feel precious and not experiment enough

  • @allanpennington

    @allanpennington

    4 ай бұрын

    @@EhsanMalekiArt I agree, practice is good with newsprint. I had tried arches hot press 100% cotton water colour paper but even vine charcoal leaves a stain so you can’t lift a bright highlight. Mad Charcoal YT uses arches bfk rives a print cotton rag. I have a piece I’ll try out to see how well vine lifts. At the end of the day I’ll probably end up going darker across all values and the highlights won’t be original paper white but the lightest tone left behind by the vine charcoal.

  • @EhsanMalekiArt

    @EhsanMalekiArt

    4 ай бұрын

    @@allanpennington I see, This is an issue with most archival paper... thats why I opted out, now I work on grey newsprint and after the drawing is done in case I want to archive it, I will fix it with spray and then paste it on sturdy foamboards

  • @RahmatolahEskandari-io3qn
    @RahmatolahEskandari-io3qn4 ай бұрын

    نوع کاغذ و مقوا را مشخص میکردی عالی بود کارت عالی است

  • @svahed
    @svahed2 ай бұрын

    هنرتون ستودنی هست ،جسارتا از چه نوع زغالی استفاده کردید ؟

  • @EhsanMalekiArt

    @EhsanMalekiArt

    2 ай бұрын

    متشکرم زغال درختی کرتا کالر

  • @cluek9780
    @cluek97802 ай бұрын

    No mention of the negative tools

  • @mightyseraz
    @mightyseraz2 ай бұрын

    Short answer: to add layers in charcoal, mist it lightly with fixative, wait a minute, keep drawing.

  • @cluek9780

    @cluek9780

    2 ай бұрын

    Better answer: spray a mist of alcohol. It’ll allow more pigment to be placed without gluing down the previous layer

  • @Georgi_Slavov79
    @Georgi_Slavov794 ай бұрын

    Оne word:brush. Though cotton works too.

  • @xufreee
    @xufreee4 ай бұрын

    Judging by your hands you are a insta girl...lol. hands of a master

  • @EhsanMalekiArt

    @EhsanMalekiArt

    4 ай бұрын

    ✌✌🙏🙏

  • @TT-ei1ge
    @TT-ei1ge5 ай бұрын

    hi

  • @tikaartnomade1615
    @tikaartnomade16154 ай бұрын

    Si l'on ne vois pas l'image de référence, c inutile de regarder ce que vous faite, ça ne nous aide pas !

  • @my_two_cents2133
    @my_two_cents21333 ай бұрын

    Where's your reference?

  • @lkd982
    @lkd9824 ай бұрын

    140K views for this yet one most others in the less than 100 to 1000 range? I don't get it?

  • @WMedl
    @WMedl4 ай бұрын

    Interesting video from a technical point of view but after 2::37 the drawing deteriorates to decorative realism. By the way you should have shown also the fixation...

  • @urbanry
    @urbanry4 ай бұрын

    Po co to szarpanie węglem. Ach. Taki artysta

  • @renzo6490
    @renzo64904 ай бұрын

    A demonstration with no instruction or text...That's not a "how to". That's a, " see what I can do ".

  • @zzzSargentzzz80

    @zzzSargentzzz80

    4 ай бұрын

    I strongly disagree. You just watched a strong portrait from start to finish by a skilled artist. Something very rare to observe before youtube. You still don't get it? I don't think text will help you

  • @Thunder-mullet
    @Thunder-mullet4 ай бұрын

    Beautiful