Introduction
Many people consider charcoal to be an unconventional drawing method. I on the other hand, believe that charcoal is a medium of drawing that deserves a lot of recognition. If you want to get started with charcoal drawing, you should begin with some easy and basic stuff. In case you don’t know how or where to start, I’ve got some amazing tutorials that can help you out.
For working with charcoal drawings in an easy way, you have to do two things. First and foremost, you need to maintain the cleanliness of your drawing. Charcoals can get messy, and make the artwork look bad. Second, you need to bring variations in shades, otherwise the drawing will look very plain. If you can manage these two things, you can go ahead, and start drawing.
Charcoal Drawing for Kids
Before you get started with more rigorous tutorials, you should first consider doing a bit of warm-up. This charcoal drawing tutorial for kids is the best place for you to start. Here, you can have feel what it’s like to draw using charcoal. Holding the piece of charcoal in your hand, and figuring out how much pressure you’d want to apply for certain tones will help you understand what you’re getting yourself into.
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Easy Shading in Charcoal
Consider this to be yet another warm-up exercise before you get started with harder drawing techniques. In this video tutorial, you’ll learn the basic shading technique for charcoal drawing. As mentioned before, charcoal drawings can get messy. Hence, here you’ll learn how to keep your drawing neat and clean while shading. This is a simple yet important tutorial. It’s the first step towards regular charcoal drawings.
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Charcoal Cartoon House
For this lesson, you’ll get to see how you can create complex elements with charcoal pencils. Your shading technique will also be tested here. One of the most important things to remember is that a little bit of pressure on the charcoal pencil can completely change the tone of your shade. So you need to keep that in check, and in this drawing, where there are a lot of lighter tones, you’ll be taught to do just that.
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Charcoal Lighthouse Scenery
This where you’ll finally get to draw a full scenery using charcoal. The objective here is to understand how the composition works in charcoal drawing. To be honest, the composition technique is pretty much the same for any other art style. Here, however, you’ll be asked to focus more on the cleanliness of your drawing. Multiple elements mean more charcoal lines. Hence, you’ll need to do whatever it takes to ensure a neat and clean drawing.
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Dark Charcoal Forest
With this charcoal drawing tutorial, we’ll finally be exploring more rigorous styles and compositions. This drawing of a dark forest was meant to be drawn with charcoal pencils. It’s a nicely done drawing that has amazing shading work. The drawing also has a mix of light and dark tones which adds a bit of depth to it. All in all, this where you’ll finally get to feel the excitement of charcoal drawing.
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Charcoal Rose Drawing
Although this isn’t anything difficult, you can tell that this drawing will require you to drawing smooth edges using charcoal. Here, you’ll come to know what type of charcoal pencil or stick you need to use in order to get the right smoothness. Rough drawings are easy to do. But it’s these smooth ones where the edges are kept clean, that will give you a bit of trouble.
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Step by Step Eye Drawing Tutorial
In this video tutorial, you’ll get to see how to draw a realistic eye using charcoal pencils. This time around, you really need to step up your game. Drawing lifelike images in charcoal can be a really daunting task. I myself had to deal with a lot of messy drawings before I finally managed to get things right. Hence, you’ll need to practice this tutorial a lot before you can produce something worth noticing.
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Basic Shapes with Charcoal
Drawing these basic shapes will help you understand how the basic charcoal drawing and shading techniques work. Not only will you be drawing these shapes, but you’ll also be shading them in an appropriate manner. You’ll also see how the composition can play out if you alter positions of the elements in your drawing. Take your time with this one. Learn the basics by heart.
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Charcoal Drawing with Depth
In this video tutorial, you’ll be taught how to draw a couple of vases, and an apple with charcoal. This is one of the finest charcoal drawing tutorials. Although it only covers the basic steps in depth and shading, it’s still a crucial technique that you need to hone before you can join the big leagues. This is probably where you’ll get to graduate charcoal drawing class. Once you’ve mastered this drawing, there will be no stopping you.
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Charcoal Portrait Study
Charcoal portrait drawings are some of the most common charcoal artworks you’ll see. However, not all of those artworks are good looking, or even accurate. In order to master the charcoal portrait drawing skills, you’ll need to study a lot. Hence, this tutorial is quite important for you. Here, you’ll be studying a portrait, and tracing it on paper with charcoal. Later on, you can do some more studies on your own, and see what you’ve learnt so far.
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By Jimena & Iñigo
The Navarro-Rubios
My husband and I are learning how to draw and paint. We wanted to share this learning process with the world and have fun! That's why we created this blog. We'll have drawing contests every week and you'll decide who won that week! Follow along and learn with us!
Jimena & Iñigo
The Navarro-Rubios
My husband and I are learning how to draw and paint. We wanted to share this learning process with the world and have fun! That's why we created this blog. We'll have drawing contests every week and you'll decide who won that week! Follow along and learn with us!
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