Charcoal Portraits 

Today we watched a video of a charcoal portrait being drawn, we were asking to research some of the key points.  To the left is a portrait of Gandalf put together with charcoal.  when you make one of these you can put charcoal dust on the page first and move it around with a shamy cloth, make sure you can see the lightness and darkness of the photo or object you chose to do.  Make notes of the dark and light spaces, or as the lady in the video we watched today said "go into photocopy mode" and then you can really pick out the spaces.  Another important thing to do is not to think about symbols, but to think about eyes, nose and the mouth.  When you think its good to go or you maybe need to change something you can stand back and check it out for any changes.