{"id":8469,"date":"2026-10-22T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T06:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maryamfarkhondehart.com\/black-pen\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T00:31:45","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T21:01:45","slug":"charcoal-and-monochrome-drawing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maryamfarkhondehart.com\/en\/charcoal-and-monochrome-drawing\/","title":{"rendered":"Monochrome drawing: seeing light and shadow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Monochrome drawing uses black, white and shades of grey to create an image. Common tools include drawing charcoal, graphite and Cont\u00e9 pencils, different erasers\u2014especially a kneaded eraser\u2014blending stumps and suitable drawing paper or board.<\/p>\n<h2>Key characteristics<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>An emphasis on light, shadow and volume<\/li>\n<li>The depiction of textures such as skin, hair and fabric<\/li>\n<li>Applications in portraits, still life, animals and landscapes<\/li>\n<li>The possibility of realistic or hyperrealistic treatment<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>A learning path<\/h2>\n<p>Line practice, control of hand pressure, understanding light and shadow, and drawing simple shapes and volumes form a useful foundation. From there, you can practise facial features such as eyes, noses and lips before progressing to a complete portrait.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lorem Ipsum is a fabricated text with incomprehensible production from the printing industry and used by graphic designers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":8468,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[415],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-painting-lessons-techniques"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maryamfarkhondehart.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maryamfarkhondehart.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maryamfarkhondehart.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maryamfarkhondehart.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maryamfarkhondehart.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8469"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.maryamfarkhondehart.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8646,"href":"https:\/\/www.maryamfarkhondehart.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8469\/revisions\/8646"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maryamfarkhondehart.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maryamfarkhondehart.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maryamfarkhondehart.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maryamfarkhondehart.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}