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"How Intimate!"At least, that's what the instructor said when he commented on what I had been working on during the last day of charcoal sketch class.
The original sketch which I was supposed to be copying had actually been two monkeys hugging each other. I had originally started that way, but just before I began to darken my line art, I decided to change one monkey into a cat, its likeness of which resembles a particular character's form majority of us know and some of us love.
The instructor *did* say that we were free to make any liberties we want. 
I wasn't doing the correct way of smudging while working on this one (I didn't know about it until he showed me after class...
). But everyone thought it was cute despite the "glaringly" obvious transition between light and shadow. I do know better now though, and hopefully I'll do better next time.This isn't actually finished - there wasn't enough time for me to draw the bodies and to work even more on the shades. Which is just as well. Otherwise it would have been too big for me to scan.
My first non-basic-shape charcoal work. Done with B and 6B pencils, charcoal powder, and smudge stick.
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Cool, my sister and I were given two similar dolls shortly after the two of us were born, I saw the drawing and it registered instantly were it was from before I even read your comment. Nice job!
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Awwww... so cute ^^
I was wondering what the Starkitty was doing hugging a monkey... XD
What -is- the correct way of smudging? You've gotten me curious O_O And what is charcoal powder and a smudge stick if you don't mind my asking? ^-^;
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Apparently, the correct way is to run the lighter pencil on the paper first for the midtone. Then smudge only the areas that should have darker tones. After smuding that, run a darker pencil on areas on the smudged part where it should be darker, then smudge again only on areas that should be even darker. (overuse of "darker" in this paragraph...)
My mistake was that I smudged everything I penciled in.
A charcoal powder is just that - you take a charcoal and you grind it to produce powder.
A smudge stick, in the meantime, is just really paper, compressed so that it would look like a thin white crayon. It's what you use if you don't want to smudge the paper using your fingers.
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Wow, cool, I'm learning a lot of stuff ^^
Thanks a lot! n_n
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Ah... so that's what this drawing sitting beside me was all about... when did you take charcoal sketch class?
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Just last week. It was really short - only two days, 1.5 hours each. Just an extra, free, non-work related stuff the company offers every month.
I'll try for acrylic painting if they open another class like that next month.
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Great! It's very cute! I love the interperation as well! Faved this.
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I've never taken art! XDDDDD
Seriously tho, this is really great! I love your interpretation *coughstarandrobincough* Very cute. Keep up the good work in class! ^^
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^_^ So kawaii! At first I'm just like, "What the... a cat and a monkey?" Then I read the note, and I was like "Oooh! I get it! Cuuuute! ^_____^"
haha...I'm do slow sometimes...
I like the shading, personally. I think maybe you're just so used to doing it animation style. I think you might have siad that...*checks* no...
Well, I think its cute, and you can finish it if you want, but I thikn it looks fine like this. *shrugs* whatever.
Laters!
*Diddles*
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Awww, Thats adorable! It looks awsome so far, great job!
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Awww, Thats adorable! It looks awsome so far, great job!
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awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww *puff puff* awwwwww.... okay i'm done
the way you drew the kitty *cough starfire cough* is just so adorable
is this art class in university or an outside school art class?
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Just a small, two-day, 1.5 hours each workshop.
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Now that's just cute! Makes you want to go, "awww."
Very smart on how you turned it into a cat. Very sneaky but very clever.
I love it.
P.S. Next time you might want to give the monkey a mask.
Why? Oh...no reason. It's not like it resembles anything...hehe.
*Kitten*
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AWWW! X3 Yay! Is this what came of the charcoal class? Looks like fun ^_^ It's so cute! X3
So is it over? Wha'd you leaaarn ^_^
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Umm... I learned the five different kinds of tones?
One thing I learned is that I'm actually missing one light whenever I do my shading, i.e. reflected light. I only concentrate on the light source that I ignore the reflected one.
I also learned that it's so freaking hard to brush charcoal on paper.
What else... oh, yes, how to use a smudge stick. I used it on all my shades, which is why I didn't get the proper transition from light to dark. 
And... umm... ah! The tools which one can use for charcoal drawing (albeit the most basic ones). Charcoal powder, brush, pencils with assorted softness, and last but not the least, smudge stick!!
Other than that, we just practiced shapes.
But it was really fun.
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YAY!^^ Wow...I need to take this...I know nothing about shading because I've only taken ONE art class...and well...we didn't talk about light in it - -'''...So I make up shading as I go along^^''' Yes inded...
That sounded like a whole lot of fun though^^..I can't waot to see what you've learned reflected in your work.
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Hehe... at least you've already taken an art class. This is my first one, disregarding all the art subjects I had back in elementary...
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wow...that's impressive o.O
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It's Robin and Starfire, isn't it? From when they were turned into animals by Mumbo. Sneaky!
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I didn't say that!
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