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Adding Highlights

Coffee Beans, part IV

May 14, 2024
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Today I wanted to share how to add highlights to a charcoal sketch with additive and reductive techniques.

brown coffee beans on white ceramic bowl
Photo by Alin Luna on Unsplash

In this video, I am using the following:

  • Coffee beans from my local roastery

  • Strathmore 400 Toned Tan paper, 9x12 inches

  • General’s 4B soft charcoal pencil

  • White chalk

  • Flat tip paintbrush

  • Music from William Agosto’s YouTube channel because it’s awesome

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