PAINT with POWDER, DRAW with CHARCOAL - Teach Yourself to Draw

PAINT with POWDER, DRAW with CHARCOAL - Teach Yourself to Draw - Cast of the second son of Laocoon

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The "Teach yourself to Draw" series is dedicated to self-education and comes with resources and material to follow-along.
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I am an artist living and working in France. I learned the techniques of the Atelier of the Nineteenth century and now I try to share some of my knowledge with the rest of the world, because I think that beauty still has an important role to play in artistic creation. I do mostly drawing and oil painting, and my goal is always to provide techniques, thoughts and explanations that can be useful to anyone, from beginners to more advanced artists.
The material I use most of the time (not necessarily in this video) :
Drawing
Equipement
✓ Kneaded eraser
✓ Plumb line
✓ Small mirror
✓ An old synthetic brush
✓ Masking tape
✓ Cutter
✓ Sandpaper or sanding block
✓ Mahlstick or Hand rest (DIY)
✓ Level ruler
Graphite
✓ Pencils 2H, HB and 2B
Charcoal
✓ If available: Nitram charcoals (H, HB and B)
✓ Square charcoals
✓ Natural charcoal box
Black and white chalk
✓ Sketch pencil Conté white
✓ Square Conté noir : HB and 2B
✓ Chalk or pencil holder
✓ Pencil sketch Conté Pierre noire : H and HB
Sanguine
✓ Sketch pencil Conté : Blood and blood Medici
✓ Crayon Polychromos Faber-Castel : sanguine
✓ Sketch pencil Conté white
Oil painting
Palette
(Extra-fine paint, recommended brands depending on availability: Lefranc Bourgeois, Winsor and Newton, Royal Talens Rembrandt)
✓ Titanium white PW6
✓ Yellow ochre PY42
✓ Burnt Sienna PR101 or PBr7
✓ Venetian red or English red PR101
✓ Permanent Alizarin crimson (Attention: do not use the traditional pigment, which is not very light-fast) PV19 or PR177 or Quinacridone Rose PV19
✓ Cobalt teal blue PG50
✓ French ultramarine blue PB29
✓ Raw umber PBr7
✓ Burnt umber PBr7
✓ Ivory Black PBk9
Brushes
✓ About ten filbert hog bristle brushes sizes n° 4, 6, 8, 10 and 12
✓ Some flat brushes
✓ Round sable brush or round Kolinsky sable n° 4, 8, 10, 12 (from the size of the nail (about one inch) or synthetic imitation
Medium
✓ Linseed stand oil
✓ Odourless mineral spirits
✓ Safflower oil
Surface
✓ Linen canvas, fine grain universal coating
✓ For studies : Canson oil-acrylic oil paper Figueras
Others
✓ Palette
✓ Foam and spalter brushes
✓ Palette knife in the shape of a water drop, no souldering
✓ A few small pots, containers, jars...
✓ Paper towels
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Пікірлер: 92

@susanaojeda5507 3 жыл бұрын

I don't understand how this doesn't have millions of views, I wish people were more interested in drawing, painting, and art.

@gzheng7921 3 жыл бұрын

To be honest your videos motivated me to do more classical realist sketching and drawing! For a while i lost interest in this type of drawing. But u make it so calming and articulate

@simonegreco4620 3 жыл бұрын

I tried today for the first time doing a still Life with charchoal. I bought a compressed stick, however i spent a LOT of time trying to draw like i was doing with graphite. My teacher saw the work and made me darken all the background. It took me an entire afternoon to understand the difference without knowing.

@sudhanshubansode2452 3 жыл бұрын

I learned a lot from thos video, keep making the kinds of video.

@beatricebolstad4417 3 жыл бұрын

I'm not a painter, I'm a sculpture. And I have found that Charcoal is also the best medium to sketch for sculptural work as well, because of it's fluidity. One can really study and practise form and shapes through charcoal, in a way no other 2D medium can offer. I love charcoal 🖤

@yssimon9058 2 жыл бұрын

I think every beginners learning to draw who want to do oil painting later should watch this video. Thank you very much.

@ikid2012 3 жыл бұрын

Amazing video! So excited to practice! Also excited for next episode!

@catherinecervas3726 3 жыл бұрын

This is wonderful Florent, nicely done!

@susannathefinn 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! So inspiring, helpful and informative!!

@tavozepeda 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! You are a great teacher!

@Ladysmes1111 3 жыл бұрын

This was very helpful, thank you.

@gwensanders37 2 жыл бұрын

Beautiful work & inspiring.

@joycesmith5786 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for all your videos. You are a good teacher and I enjoy watching you.

@miekemiddelhuis3782 2 жыл бұрын

Great video, thanks Florent!

@themysteriousdomainmoviepalace 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you, Florent! Beautiful! Charcoal can look so mysterious.

@MikenasFlohr 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks - this is an excellent and helpful video

@greg6873 3 жыл бұрын

Seriously, you are so talented..you hypnotise me...😎

@stazriffel 3 жыл бұрын

Charcoal is an amazing medium 🥳👨‍🎨🤘oh & I love the close up shots, will throw some into my next video as well 🎥

@CB-kb6ep 3 жыл бұрын

Loved this video!

@alesiaarnold4259 Жыл бұрын

Brilliant! Thank you 🙏

@jasonsmith4531 2 жыл бұрын

So cool! I tried his technique and it is a lot of fun and so different from any medium I have used before. I am going to do some more work using this technique because the process is challenging and the result is delightful. I am so impressed with the use of charcoal this way and surprised I have not seen anyone anywhere describe this fluid, powdery way of painting with natural charcoal. Y'all should try it! Thanks Mr. Farges!

@uncleatelier8495 3 жыл бұрын

Wow, that's a lot of skill. Have a nice day.~♡★☆♡♥♥

@jumanas4012 5 ай бұрын

loved your advice . thank you

@greenflower360 Жыл бұрын

I haven't did charcoal in so long despite it being my favorite method. I'm going to try your tips

@sharonwright7932 3 ай бұрын

Thank you so very much!

@ELICARLO11 3 жыл бұрын

Your approach to art is so deep and philosofical you made me fall in love of charcoal again.

@anewjemail7471 3 жыл бұрын

Its filosophee

@m.i.miller8008 3 жыл бұрын

This was an awesome video for me as I have been struggling with my painting as I can now see I have missed the charcoal step.

@roshanrathnayake6959 3 жыл бұрын

Great work my friend 👊👌

@hanayrplz 3 жыл бұрын

Drawing with charcoal and brushes is helps me a lot and I still use this technique until now

@sashavonspakovsky311 2 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@jackieprathankiat477 2 жыл бұрын

thank you for sharing this video.

@user-od7lf5yh1y 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you.

@shannonedelman2073 2 жыл бұрын

wow thats amazing keep it up!

@emiliohernandez7224 3 жыл бұрын

Really cool method, more like sculping, getting rid of or adding more charcoal, nice

@tiffinimorgan1867 3 жыл бұрын

Very helpful. I didn't realize charcoal was so fluid. I will try this.

@JadeLeaf1980 4 ай бұрын

Vine Charcoal is by far my fave medium. It’s the most forgiving if you have no confidence in art and teaches you to stop striving for immediate perfection and instead to embrace gradual build of it. There’s no need to always get every stroke right so it allows freedom to experiment and move things about until it’s to your liking. Everything is fixable, mistakes have no permanency, so you can make as many errors as you need to learn what works. I can’t believe I used to hate charcoal. It’s practically all I draw with now. Once you get past hating dirty fingers and learn to embrace chaos and mess, it’s an amazing medium and it’s a fast medium to work with so you can churn out so much work and practice without compromising masses of your time.

@mathieuvart 2 жыл бұрын

Très beau dessin Florent.

@ms_zaku.1415 2 жыл бұрын

Respect, 💕Very nice.💕👍👍👍

@ElizabethBattle 2 жыл бұрын

My son showed me how to make my own charcoal from local grapevine. I love working with it.

@stephenfularz7573 Жыл бұрын

Good drawing imformarion.

@lauradiamante7066 3 жыл бұрын

I found your vídeo very inspiring

@jonestube2007 Жыл бұрын

Thank-you........I'm-on-it.

@socratesthecabdriver 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks

@missknisely 3 жыл бұрын

Yay thanks for these! Will you do a video focused on cray-pas? (oil pastels?)

@cynthiamarston2208 3 жыл бұрын

Oh yay!

@yuq4798 8 ай бұрын

Thanks!

@FlorentFargesarts 8 ай бұрын

Thank you so much ✨✨✨😊😊😊✨✨✨

@waynerogers5485 3 жыл бұрын

Merci. Wonderful instruction on my transition from graphite to charcoal moving toward oil painting. One question, please. How do you stabilize the drawing for permanence when finished?

@eves.2825 3 жыл бұрын

Merci Florent! Je pensais justement à ça il y a quelques jours et je me demandez comment le faire. Superbe :)

@AndrewSemkin 3 жыл бұрын

круто!)

@tinlidtoo6615 3 жыл бұрын

This is such great information. I am curious. When you are working do you see your reference image as a two dimensional map of clusters of flat shapes, or do you think of it as a three dimensional object?

@maria-giulianalatini1724 2 жыл бұрын

I would love to see the drawing you are copying as you're drawing during the entire process.☺️

@jafarkadory8288 3 жыл бұрын

Can you create a video of the preliminary lines of a portrait drawing for the correct measurements

@devononiel 2 жыл бұрын

Who else started blowing at the screen when he started sketching at 22:14?

@ThingOfSome 3 жыл бұрын

What is the charcoal/pencil extender you are using?

@xXrimjobXx 2 жыл бұрын

Anyone notice the transition from 20:00 - 20:05? I can understand work can be done outside of the frame/video, and most DEFINITELY i'm jealous of the skills displayed, but damn son. in 5 seconds the portrait went from ok to excellent. Not hating, I have so much to learn, i just wanted to see the in between because a LOT changed in those 5 seconds, from his shoulder to his mouth to his hair. It seems a lot of work was done, and I don't mind watching the journey to get there. Seems trivial to you maybe, "moving the charcoal around," but I'm just at the cusp of even trying this. I painted first and am just now trying charcoal as a medium between drawing and paint, and I am fucking lost completely. I want to see it all I guess.

@emadmoussa2576 3 жыл бұрын

Can you please add a link to the 'extenders / lengtheners' to the Nitram sticks?

@littleripper312 2 жыл бұрын

Amazing, I'm just wondering what you would call that face expression on the original cast. Like are they grieving or something? I probably make that face when I see my taxes at the end of the year.

@vivaldirules 3 жыл бұрын

I hate the mess of charcoal but it occurs to me that I could take it outside or to my garage to apply that initial base layer and brush it to blend it out. That initial phase probably creates at least half of all the charcoal dust of your entire process. I could then bring the work inside to do the remaining 99% of the effort but with less than half of the dust generation left. I’m going to try that!

@David-cm4ok 3 жыл бұрын

Get a grip of yourself! Get messy, enjoy it.

@renzo6490 2 жыл бұрын

The Nitram brand doesn’t create much charcoal powder. Nitram is Martin backwards

@schreitererstudio Жыл бұрын

AMAZING!! HOW YOU PROTECT THE CHARCOAL? PUT SOME SPRAY AFTER? TKS and keep going all you amazing art!!!

@alexpascu9639 3 жыл бұрын

Double like

@cassandrar5127 3 жыл бұрын

I actually hate graphite. Its shiny and I prefer the matte look of charcoal. And soft charcoal is very forgiving. I really fell in love with charcoal. Its very moody and dark.

@maria-giulianalatini1724 2 жыл бұрын

Are you standing or sitting while you're drawing and how do you mount your paper and original for drawing?

@abcdeisthekey Жыл бұрын

Do you know any ways to "seal" a charcoal drawing without buying a fixative? I'm not looking for hairspray either. I am curious about something natural, can make yourself or find not in a store

@tejakodali1351 2 жыл бұрын

Why do you make the bottom of the canvas lighter than the top?

@santoshainguva2649 3 жыл бұрын

Can we use activated charcoal

@trajtemberg 2 жыл бұрын

Any tips on how to know when to stop?

@Delta888ful 3 жыл бұрын

What is the plum line?? What's its purpose and how do you know where to place it? Thank you.

@asmodevsluxuria 3 жыл бұрын

I think he explains that here: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rthpYN2Kyr-taKM.html

@themysteriousdomainmoviepalace 3 жыл бұрын

Its a line down the center. The center point gives you a reference.

@renzo6490 2 жыл бұрын

Plumb Line

@brylidan 2 жыл бұрын

disclaimer, you gottta use good qality materials for this technique to work

@A_-.328 Жыл бұрын

Not really, I just recently tried this using crappy charcoal sticks a3 printer paper a normal eraser and my fingers and got pretty amazing results but better materials certainly make it more time efficient

@EDX2308 3 жыл бұрын

You know what would be cool? Seeing you do digital art and seeing if your skills match electronically..

@ELICARLO11 3 жыл бұрын

If you have such skills for traditional art...You have already all the knowledge to do it on digital way...the issue fact is to learn all the different ways on which different programs name or concept of the interfaces.

@maggs131 3 жыл бұрын

Digital pictures dont require artistic talent. Once you figure out how the program and software work a baby can do it. Not having an undo button or layers you can manipulate individually is art

@ELICARLO11 3 жыл бұрын

@@maggs131 Well, I got to respect your opinion because at the bachellor I did fight with my colleagues thinking the way you do, but with the time I get a drawing tablet and change the way I thought in little aspects..in the way of the undo button thing is exactly as the eraser, you use it in same way, I mean You'll use it wisely and little the more you practice.. about the color ..that is a whole different world that is so technical but less satisfactory than a plastic artist calculating everything at eye. it requires less skills of course..but the factor of texture and all those pre crafted brushes are a pain in the ass .. it kills the spontaneity on the decision in the hand of the artist that sometimes works with its own memory even in the most technical artist....that's why I think Is art..but a minor one ( I give a crap if it sounds pretentiously purist. Is the way it is) but is more related to art that just graffic design ..Jjja we can call it a high digital craft.

@cezalgloiret8885 Жыл бұрын

Pas de sous-titres en français. Dommage !

@anewjemail7471 3 жыл бұрын

You always go from a word list to integrate into your videos?

@devyadav3273 3 жыл бұрын

If I accidently touch natural charcoal drawing, it smears and messes up. Any tips?

@FlorentFargesarts 3 жыл бұрын

Use a "mahlstick", or simply a cane to hook on top of your drawing board !

@renzo6490 2 жыл бұрын

Can this be done with powdered graphite, too?

@Boleyngirly Жыл бұрын

Yes, but you won't have as dramatic a contrast between your highlights and shadows. You'd tone the paper with the loose graphite and pull the image out in much the same way, erasing and shading with graphite pencils or crayons of various softness... 🤓✏️