Now Teaching an online mentorship program at ArtCritAcademy.com dvd.davidkassan.com Did this quickie little tutorial on how to draw the eye in Charcoal for America Artist Magazine's Artist Daily
What makes David so special...is one he is a good artist, and two he is most generous in sharing his learnings with others...He is a genuine good individual with a warm generous spirit. He is also a good teacher. Buy his amazing videos...and you will grow very much in your skill. And then share what you have learned with others.
I can honestly say that you are one of the most inspirational artists around. Your work is loaded with emotional depth, that is the only way I can describe it. Thank you for your generosity in posting your techniques!
Pure genius David. Thank you for sharing. As someone who is constantly learning I can tell you that this short video tutorial was immensely useful. Thank you.
Awesome! Inspired to me to do more life drawing and studies. My artwork is more folk art, renaissance /medieval style (bit of a hodge podge, I know!) but I used to love life drawing!! I really want to get back to it after this. I love your work.. And have never seen any artist use binoculars like this! Will maybe give it a try! Thanks for posting!
Me likey! This method is interesting, it reminds me of the subtractive method on white paper, where you do a strong line drawing with charcoal and then you use a piece of paper to smear the lines and tone the paper slightly, going back to darken the lines you need to darken, rinse and repeat until you build a good middle tone and then subtract the light mass. I find it interesting because in art school they tell us never to mix the charcoal with the white pencil.
Yes, he is using binoculars. You can see very clearly what you want to draw. He builds his drawing by using layers of softness and adding to it. Soften, add, soften, add. It creates such depth in his drawings.
Hi David, What kind of paper do you use? It seems to stand up pretty well under all the smearing, erasing, and mark-making. Interesting…I was taught to never mix the white and black charcoal for fear that the universe might end but you seem to not mind it at all
Thanks for sharing ,you are my favourite realistic painter ,such a natural.Just one question:can you please let me know which kind of binoculars are you using,what a great idea.Thanks ,you are pure vitamin for the arts.
awesome technique,really appreciate you sharing this.as a arts student I hope you can answer a question for me.At the beginning what did you use to sketch the eye and the head?it looks like some kind of paint, but at the same time you could erase it, so i dont think it was acrylic. thanks in advance and the all the best to you!
please tell me what that long piece with fabric on the end that you use to draw with is. I am amazed at how wonderful it gets the job done. Please share with us.
David, what kind of white chalk are you using. I have tried both white chalk and charcoal and I cannot get it to go over the graphite. It simply blends in because my understanding is that the graphite acts as a lubricant and there is nothing for the white pencil to adhere to. How are you doing it? Thanks in advance. Great work BTW!
Yes, he does say white chalk, but he's using white charcoal pencil. He has a materials list on his website in the video's description. I'm going to give his technique a try very soon myself. Good luck!
Fantastic video,thank you. What a great ide to use binoculars to get "up close" to the model. Wait! you were using grafitti back in 2011? Im just thinking NOW in 2019 to incorporate grafitti into my pieces. Darn! and I thought I was being edgy.
