Learn to render the human form in charcoal and white chalk

12 videos • Over 5 hours of content • 120 days of access

Master the basics of tonal figure drawing

Follow along with Buchanan as he completes a tonal drawing of a female figure, step-by-step, starting with the basic structural anatomy and proportion, and ending with the final rendering of surface form using of light and shadow.

  • "Figure Drawing with Charcoal and White Chalk on Toned Paper" is a figure drawing course divided into 12 easy-to-understand lessons, complete with reference photographs.

  • The skills developed by drawing along with Buchanan will enable artists to make their own charcoal drawings from life or photographic reference.

  • This video was recorded using an iPad, and thus is best viewed on an iPad or other mobile device. Though, we have formatted it so that you can view it on a laptop or PC.

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Course curriculum

    1. Video I

    1. Photo references

    2. Video II

    1. Video III

    1. Video IV

    1. Video V

    1. Video VI

About this course

  • $99.00
  • 13 lessons
  • 5.5 hours of video content

Instructor

Noah Buchanan

Noah Buchanan began his artistic studies in 1994 at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, where he studied classical drawing and painting, as well as extensive studies in human anatomy. In 2002, he received a Masters of Fine Arts from the New York Academy of Art where he intensified his training in figure painting and anatomy with Martha Mayer Erlebacher and Steven Assael. Noah Buchanan is represented by Dacia Gallery in New York, as well as Winfield Gallery in Carmel, CA. He has participated in exhibitions across the United States from New York to Los Angeles. Buchanan has exhibited internationally in London, Edinburgh, and Tokyo. His paintings and drawings are featured in private and public collections throughout the United States and Europe. Buchanan teaches painting and drawing at several colleges and universities in the San Francisco Bay Area. His work is based in the mythic, symbolic, and heroic traditions of the figure. He is primarily interested in depicting the human figure as a vessel that confronts and grapples with the Divine. He co-curated the exhibit "Big Stories"a group exhibition featuring large-scale, contemporary figurative paintings influenced by the narrative tradition, along with Bo Bartlett and Carl Dobsky. The show made its debut at the Bo Bartlett Center at Columbus State University in Columbus, Georgia and then later traveled to the NYAA in NYC.

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Figure Drawing with Noah Buchanan • 12 video lessons • Over 5 hours of content • 120 days of access