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Charcoal tutorial: Marilynby ~AnndreaLeeann

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edit! YEY! The sizing is back! Now you can read it :]</b>

Here it is, as promised!
I have been asked on many occasions how I draw blonde hair and since my last tutorial was male and black hair I decided to do this one up for you guys. I really hope it helps!

If you have any questions please ask! I will get back to you asap as I am online quite often.

My first tutorial
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~cherokeegirl15 Jun 8, 2011 Student General Artist

I found this to be extremely helpful

i'm actually doing a portrait of Marilyn Monroe right now and i'm on the hair. I'm doing my portrait in various shades of graphite pencils so would the shading in the hair still be in the shades you described or since charcoal is significantly darker than the medium I am using, would the shades be lighter? I am sure I can figure it out eventually but I don't want to hurt my portrait. Thank you

~AnndreaLeeann Jun 9, 2011 Professional Traditional Artist

I'm glad it helped!! Well it depends on the tones of your reference, I would try matching those as close as possible. Since I made the tones in mine contrasted greately, as in dark AND really light, I matched those. If you are trying to make dark dark, I would just make them as dark as your medium gets if that makes any sense. Let me know!

~cherokeegirl15 Jun 9, 2011 Student General Artist

Yea my reference had more shadows in the hair because the lighting was different. I used a B to trace the hair and a 4B for the shadows. It came out alright for not having a clue what to do lol.

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~AnndreaLeeann Jun 10, 2011 Professional Traditional Artist

Very beautiful!! Do you use a blender?

~cherokeegirl15 Jun 10, 2011 Student General Artist

thank you

I have a blender but I used my finger and the eraser to blend everything.

!GraceMusser Jul 6, 2010

this is an AMAZING tutorial can;t wait to try it out! finally an amazing artist has put up a detailed tutorial

question: when you say paintbrush with charcoal, do you mean water mixed w regular charcoal? or charcoal powder? or...?
jw cuz I'm going to the art supply store tomorrow!! thanks

~AnndreaLeeann Jul 7, 2010 Professional Traditional Artist

bless you!! I just use dust after i run the chunk on some sandpaper or shave it down with a blade. No water just dust

good luck and thank you! Be sure to show me what youve come up with!

!GraceMusser Jul 9, 2010

oh ok! that makes sense now
and I will

hopefully I'll also come up with something or other for your contest...I usually dont do halloween work but I do love looking at it

~Necromend Mar 20, 2010

holy jebus crackers! really big file... but i think it is worth it. i just got a micheals gift card and was thinking about charcoaling too ^3^ gunna fav this for the futura =3 thanks for making it

~AnndreaLeeann Mar 20, 2010 Professional Traditional Artist

oh it's not that big

haha yeah, many layers will do that to the file size D:
Thanks for giving it a chance!! I made a charcoal one before this one that has a lot more tips in it that was more of a catch all if you ever want to check that one out [link]

thanks!

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