Exploration of Busts
Sketching is usually used to train accurate observation performance and professional painting skills. After the middle and high school age, it is essential to understand the concept of proportion, light, and shade. Then, anyone can go through a fixed method of training, and learn to create more accurate and life-like drawings. A lot of people have a very wrong idea of charcoal sketches of busts. If your child is very good at drawing, you will believe he or she will become even better by learning to sketch. Even if your child is not very good at drawing, you will still think he or she will become a better artist by learning to sketch. So no matter how well a child draws, sketch training seems to be the answer. Not surprisingly, if we offered to teach this difficult technique, meant for mature adults, to children, we can make children experience difficulties and want to retreat from, or even hate painting.
Figure 1.
YanZhu Chen (11 years old)
Figure 1.
YanZhu Chen (11 years old)
Charcoal Practice (Xi Ke)
Charcoal sketching and spreading can in fact be a very good experience, as long as children feel that drawing busts is fun. They will like it as long as they are not required to be accurate, they don’t feel pressured to utilize difficult skills, and no one demands professional drawings with theoretical standards. It is essential to focus only on the experience of the texture of charcoal and understanding that between black and white, there are many different shades of gray. You must learn to use weight to draw strokes, create lines and blocks, and use a "white bun” eraser as a white charcoal on a canvas of black. To experience these, draw whatever you see, ignore concerns of accuracy, and you can feel the characteristics of drawing busts.
The creativity of art education lies in the use of every opportunity to explore creation, with the actual experience transcending current knowledge and technology. Emphasis should be placed in the process of experience and the formation of experimental spirit. For example, children observing with the "heart", and with "feelings", grasp the change of charcoal from light to dark, as well as the application of strokes. If your extraordinary sketches are from the heart and your ability of observation is sensitive, pure, and direct, the result will be touching.