Materials To Use In Charcoal Drawings

[sweety0711]

joker drawing is awesome!!!

[poppx3]

How do you use a blending stick? I got a sketching set from walmart and it has blending sticks but I can't use them, when i tried it didn't work o.o

[ghost48690]

thanks



[lauriemama]

YOU are my hero of art! :D

[EmYoussif]

Ah I knew I should've bought that white charcoal pencil I saw two days ago :/ I've always used only black charcoal and a hard eraser in all my drawings, never used anything else, but God willing I'm definitely gonna use more of these materials next time I draw =)

[jkghnmf]

wad is the 3 white colour pencils?izzit for blending?wad izzit called?

[EmYoussif]

@jkghnmf Those 3 white colored pencil-like things are called "Tortillons" or "Blending/Smudging Sticks", I just googled it xD and yes they are used for blending and/or smudging charcoal =)

[echomailerz]

hey,im currently in Malaysia..these things are not sale actually..

can i buy it online or something..if i could,give me a link.. :)

[tangkag879]

is white charcoal easy to blend?

[freakman707]

FAVORITE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[713GRAFFITIKING]

Can u make a tutorial and how to draw the joker like the one u used in the vid?thx in advanced!:D

[jeffersonlokey]

one other thing to realy help with is the spray... to save time and effort you can just use hair spray, i strongly push that you use a aerosol can with the hair spray and just like Andrew said lightly spray it, or it will rinckle you paper.

[pinsetter1991]

@MrWFSJR. Preference, work-ability & outcome. It's working for me!

[MrWFSJR]

Question? Why is charcoal use instead of graphite pencils. Is it age vs. fade or texture quality (or something else)?

[Greeny14789]

THANKS FOR MENTIONING THE SPRAY THING i just finished a tiger dawing and i didnt know what to do with it because i didnt want to smear it :D

[CHloE748]

i have a charcoal pencil sharpener. it works really good. you should get one

[AwesomeCoasters]

I like your knife lol

I just carry a small basic vectorinox knife and do fine with most things but a big one is still pretty badass.

[amesadame]

I recently purchased some charcoal, and the box didn't say compressed. Is there a big difference with the results you'd get?

[bella5ish]

thank you im goin to the art store now.

[Fuchsia5]

Hey! I've been doing about the same technic :D If you want to try a charcoal brand, try the COATES one, especially the one called CHUNKY: it fills the paper surface immediatly :D

I was looking for the white charcoal lol I used to use white chalk (not covering enough) and white pastel (cover more than chalk, but still not enough) I'm glad I've researched some infos on charcoal :D

By the way, do you clean you work surface after drawing? I still have some "charcoal stains" left on my table :(

[pinsetter1991]

yeah i windex/wipe my desk down before i draw otherwise i will get even more messy than i already do lol.

thanks for the comment/info :)

[Karjala888]

Thanks really much for these tutorial videos! i have problems with papers.Any papers you recommend? watercolor? i buy and try acrylic paper Canson Arches 185g next...but anyway what you use in works that you wanna put in wall and takes good those dark/black colors.And tryed yet those "new" tinted charcoal pencils?. Hails from finland..sry my spelling. hope it makes some sense.

[pinsetter1991]

Hey glad you like it! i use Vellum Bristol paper made by Wausau paper. you can also find it at an art store usually.

thanks:)

[kellenkaos]

good job but that was the cooolest and weirdest pencil sharpener ive ever seen and by the way that poker drawing going to make your publicity go up fast so good job and good luck on your next drawings

[Athena1129]

I always make a huge mess when I try to draw with charcoal :/ ...but you might have just inspired me to give it another go.

[emodude12099]

Thankx so much!!!!!!!! this helped alot ..... ur awsome!

[pinsetter1991]

No problem! glad it helped.

-Andrew

[josseline9090]

WOW! THIS IS SOOO~ AMAZING!

where did you got those materials because i tried to find them but can't

[josseline9090]

i got one of those blending thing by my art teacher

she gaved it to me because she says i took art really serious unlike the other students

[pinsetter1991]

Any art store. I got everything here from Aaron Brothers. You can also try Michaels, but any art store should have these. Or if worse comes to worse, just get these online, there's a site called Jerrys Artarama that has a lot of good stuff.

Thanks!

[josseline9090]

Thank You! =D

I Am Going To Michaels!

[RiversOfRedness]

ill have to get myself some blending stubs, they seem more accurate than my finger. great joker too man.

[pinsetter1991]

Yeah they work great for blending small details, I still use my finger on large areas though.

Thanks!

:)

[Digger409]

Thats not a knife!! Thats a MACHETE!!! lol. I use the hard charcoal all the time to do my outlines. Ill always use that to sketch my drawings. But then again, i go over it with color so you really dont see it at all after that so maybe thats why. I pretty much have the same stuff you do. BTW thanks for showing ur reciept, i now have ur credit card number!!!!