Adding Highlights

Coffee Beans, part IV

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

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

Let’s get started!