One of My Charcoal Drawing Techniques

This video demo shows one of the variety of charcoal drawing techniques I use in figure drawing. Without doing any kind of lay-ins, I first indicated the whole shadow area with the charcoal stick. From there I started to lay down the marks that only matters, tryng to make as less marks as possible, looking 3 times and 1 mark, not 3 marks and 1 look. You will notice rather long pause in between each marks, and that is because I was observing carefully defiding what mark would make the most differencs to the drawing at each present stage. I objective was to make it realistic working as little as possible, keeping in mind that less is more.

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