Lagertha - charcoal portrait drawing

SylvainKlein

Here is my portrait of Lagertha from TV shows The Viking.
Done with charcoal on artboard, 45*55cm

Hope you like it

and here is a timelapse video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRIHkLKu2AQ

Summer

I really love seeing this drawing and the video.  Nice tool layout as well.  Very instructive. 

MikeO

@SylvainKlein Beautiful portrait and nice video.

jmac51

Can I ask what you were using for the darkest tones? It looked like you were putting it down with a palette knife.

Castillo

jmac51 said:

Can I ask what you were using for the darkest tones? It looked like you were putting it down with a palette knife.

Summer

I use these too! 

Castillo

By the Allfather, she is glorious!

SylvainKlein

Thanks you all !
And yes I'm using pan pastel knife number 4 (the pointed one) and some black panpastel powder This is for the first big layer on the portrait.
After that I switch to charcoal pencils to do the portrait itself.

Lucie

@SylvainKlein , Congratulations on this beautiful portrait!  Can you tell me what tool you used for the small white lines in the fur and hair?  White chalk, eraser or something else? The lines are so fine that it almost looks as if it is scratched from the paper surface. 

SylvainKlein

@Lucie Thank you yeah for the hair and fur white fine line it's almost done with a 2mm eraser. Using a very fine eraser for the hair is the best way I found yeah works really well I think ^^

Lucie

@SylvainKlein , do you mean like a pencil eraser that you can sharpen? 

SylvainKlein

@Lucie it's a 2mm eraser, but it happens that I cut slice of my erasers with a knife to have a specific shape or fine point