Realistic Lip & Jewelry Drawing With Charcoal Pencil

The charcoal technique, especially drawing in the style of Real and Hyper Real, has attracted a lot of attention from audiences and art lovers today. It is possible to learn this beautiful technique with relatively simple tools at a moderate cost for anyone with a bit of drawing background. The high contrast of the paintings due to the pencils and charcoal used in this technique is one of the special features of these types of paintings that doubles the beauty of the work.

In this training course, we went to a draw a kind of animal and chose a cute kitten sitting in an old shoe. The reason for this choice, apart from the beauty of the model, is the potential of the model to teach animal hair and the texture of a leather shoe.

We begin the first chapter by learning how to draw a special lip design that has a jewel with a diamond inside the metal frame inside the mouth, making it a unique and relatively versatile model for teaching.

In this part of the tutorial, in addition to the technique, the sketching of the lips and jewelry is also taught.

After the primary sketch of the lip, we go to the charcoal technique and during some following steps we learn to create volume and shade the lip, and then we go to create the texture and wrinkles on the lip.

After that, we will learn how to draw the jewel inside the jewelry, by learning it, the student can perform different types of crystal textures.

After sketching the diamond, we go to the jewel's designed metal frame and shape it.

In all stages of the work, we get acquainted with the types of chiaroscuro tools and their use and how to use them.