How to Draw Like a Painter

Summary by Krater

Artist Morgan Weistling demonstrates his method of portrait drawing with charcoal, treating it like painting by focusing on tone, mass, and values rather than line work, and then translates the drawing into an oil painting using a limited palette of Payne's Gray, Terra Rosa, and white.

From the video

Answers: How do you draw a portrait like a painter using charcoal?

• drawing a painting with charcoal
• using a pencil like a brush
• measuring proportions and values in portraiture
• blocking in light and shadow shapes
• translating charcoal drawing to oil painting
• limited palette oil painting with Payne's Gray and Terra Rosa

What it concludes

• Beginning a drawing as though you are painting by using charcoal like a brush accelerates learning how to paint.
• Holding your pencil like a brush prevents the bad habit of resting your palm on the canvas.
• Shadow patterns and light shapes are another way of measuring what is going on in a portrait.
• Using a limited palette of Payne's Gray, Terra Rosa, and white simplifies the transition from charcoal drawing to oil painting.
• Matching values, changing temperature of colors, and vibrating color relationships can be successfully achieved using just three oil colors.