Charcoal Drawing

 

One of the most commonly used mediums by artists is the drawing charcoal.
Drawing charcoal is easily accessible, can create the lightest of grays to the rich darkest of blacks and is very easy to work with.
Its popularly seems to be steadily growing over the years as more and more artists realize its unique quality to enhance the visual presentation of many of their sketches and drawings.
 Compared to that of the pencil, drawing charcoal is arguably more visually stimulating.
Also people will tend to take you more seriously as an artist, since drawing charcoal is used by some of the most renowned artists from all over the world.
Before using drawing charcoal for your artistic endeavors, you must be aware that there are a few different types of charcoals to choose from.
The first is the drawing charcoal pencil. The drawing charcoal pencil is merely tightly compressed pieces of charcoal wrapped in a plastic or a timber like material.
Charcoal can be flaky and powdery, so if you decide to use a charcoal pencil without its plastic or timber like wrappings, you may end up with dirty hands.
The charcoal pencil is also very easy to sharpen, which is very important for the finest details of your drawings.
Another of type of drawing charcoal is the Willow and vine charcoal. The Willow and vine charcoal is generally unwrapped and can produce shades from pale gray to a deep black.
This utensil is great for the everyday sketches. One of the most noticeable traits of the Willow and vine charcoal is that it tends to smudge.
Hard charcoal is a strong, tough sketching tool used primarily for extremely fine lines. You may be want to use hard charcoal on strong, thick paper.
Charcoal is general is very affordable. So you try them all out until you find the one that fits your needs the best.
Charcoal is a drawing tool which is used by many artists for the creation of various sketches.
It is a blackish residue having impure carbons, which are obtained by removing water from the animal and vegetable substances.
Generally, it is preserved by the process called fixative.
Usually charcoal is used in three forms by an artist.
1. Vine Charcoal.
2. Compressed Charcoal.
3. Powdered Charcoal.
Let's get down for more details of each one...
1. Vine Charcoal.
This charcoal is made from the burning sticks of wood in soft, medium and hard categories. Bamboo charcoal is the leading tool in Japanese charcoal drawing art.
2. Compressed Charcoal.
Compressed charcoal is a powder which is mixed with gum binder, and it is compressed into round as well as in square sticks. The hardness of stick depends on the amount of the binder. To cover wide sections of a drawing surface, finely powdered charcoal is mostly used.
3. Powdered Charcoal.
Sometimes if artists draw over the toned areas using charcoal it becomes darker, but it can become lighter if an artist wants.
Here's the difference between pencil and charcoal as a drawing tool. The main and most important difference between both pencil and charcoal is that the charcoal creates a line which is darker,
velvety, and it will spread easily. Artists generally use both natural and artificial charcoal as drawing media.
 Natural charcoal is a part of wooden charcoal and its characteristics suitable for an attractive drawing. The drawing begins with outlining the whole object using charcoal.
The main and most important feature to use charcoal is its unique ability to spread over the drawing surface.