Pastels and Charcoals, ContinuedExercises incharcoal andpastelPastels and charcoals are drawing mediums with painterly handlingcharacteristics. Practice using charcoal in line drawings. Vary your strokes;overlap and crosshatch for value. Then practice continuous-tone drawings byblending values with a stump and picking out highlights with a kneadederaser. Practice the above techniques with pastels. Pastels offer theadditional challenges of color. Blending colors and values in pastels requiresstrokes over other strokes. Practice blending pastels.Figure 1-29 shows charcoal lines possible in vine charcoal.Figure 1-29.—Line variations possible with vine charcoal.1-47
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