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This is my fifth charcoal drawing so far. I disliked the medium at first but I'm starting to enjoy it more and more πŸ˜„.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

For some reason I opened this picture zoomed in quite a bit, and the shading of the right ear doesn't really differentiate all that much from the rest of the head. If you zoom in into the right half of the face, it looks quite a bit like E.T., and I'm loving it 😁

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

Haha, you're right. Its a very funny angle.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

That's one badass camel

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

I dig this, very pleasant style and subject.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

You are GOOD

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

WHAT! How can you draw precisely with charcoal? Do you have a picture of your instruments?

I only saw this picture and the one with the room. Where are the others?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Sure I'll post some other drawings eventally. I use a kneeded eraser, an abrasive eraser, a compressed and soft charcoal and a blending stick.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

This makes sense. I’m learning to draw and only recently discovered these tools and what can be done with them. It’s almost like sculpture in that your job is to take away (after first drawing the rough image of course).

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

Nice analogy with "sculpture"

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Camels are such majestic creatures... but maybe not from this angle.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

Haha I do love the angle. Its so derpy.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

This looks like one of those scanning electron microscope images of a fly's ass or something that just happened to turn out to be a camel.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Ty, I worked hard to get all those hairs in there.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

How’d you do the hairs?