Annie Murphy Robinson I'm going to take a bash at hyperrealistism.

I don't give a fuck about impressing normies or becoming a living photocopier. I just want to do one to satisfy myself.

But I have seen issues with paper tooth and darkness of charcoal in attaining that depth of value. That's why I looked this chick's technique up...

Don't care whether she traces or not. How does she achieve the depth?

Also, sorry I utterly fagged up the greentext...

>>2983647
Don't take it too hard, OP is a faggot by default.
I am complete noob and therefore cannot give you any advice, besides not being so defensive before anyone even attacked you. Nobody cares why you draw.
Depth is only a matter of accurate values and not fucking up the perspective. Given that you think you are able to deal with hyper-realism I assume line-work is not your problem.
take a shot at it and post here, I'm sure then /ic/ will have a lot to say about it.

>>2983627
funny that when one person does this sort of thing they're an artist and it's 'hyperrealism' but when i see some housewife doing it at a crafts fair it's barely worth a second look, or the $20 she's asking.

>>2983765
Anon deleted their boiler plate shitpost that I was responding to.

I'm jyst wondering if the gallery is trolling with the sanding angle... then again I've never used 300gsm rive paper-- maybe it's such a rag paper you can a sander to it.

>>2983627
Sander means a piece of sandpaper, you nitwit. You shape the charcoal with it, either for a point, or a plane, for shading.

>>2983950
Then why does it say she uses the sander to open the weave of the paper? That's what I'm asking. Is she using the sander for a subtractive approach?

>>2984009
When you open the weave the Charcoal can penetrate deeper and becomes 3D Charcoal with Quantum depth

>>2983627
Have fun: doing hyperrealism sounds like a zen way to find inner peace or something.

Not artistic value whatsoever.

>>2984036
This is interesting. Makes me want to try it.