The ULTIMATE Charcoal Tutorial
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- Опубліковано 27 вер 2024
- Behold: the video nobody asked for but every art student needs. After getting my hands dirty in charcoal for three years at college , I feel like a have a solid understanding of the medium and I wanted to share my knowledge with you all. Kudos to anyone who makes it through the entire 30 minutes in one shot--this video ended up being beefier than I thought it was gonna be! 😅
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The assumption from the start is that every one hates to use charcoal....that one is “forced” to use it in school.
Why be so negative?
Charcoal, as a medium, is no more difficult to adapt to than oils or watercolors.
Once I understood how to use them, they became a great asset.
And, it should be noted, charcoal can be used to produce superb final works of art.
As an alternative to 'toning' your paper with charcoal, you can simply buy toned paper.
It usually comes in cool tones of blue or gray and in warm tones of tan.
If you already know about charcoal and it's material , you can start from 13:03 you're welcome
Re: White charcoal - it depends what paper you are using, I use only toned paper so white charcoal is necessary imho. My tonal range ensures it doesn’t look stark as I mute it down.
^^Okay fair, it does look pretty nice on pre-toned paper
Also sometimes you may want the exact effect she mentions is bad. a cooler tone than your white paper such as snow.
I started school for photography and fell totally in love with charcoal, so much so photography took a back seat. Now there is nothing more pleasurable than running willow charcoal across paper
You are an awesome teacher and also fun to listen to. You talk like we are all friends.
thank God for this beautiful soul !
thanks to her we are all attending art school for free! love and respect from Ethiopia!
also i see it's been four years! how is Miguel doing? your plant ! my favorite plant i call him George lol i thought i was the only one who named his plants lol
I love charcole!
Awesome tutorial, I enjoyed it, I'm a self taught artist..,I started at 59 ,and now I'm 71 years old, and you tube became my best friend ,it taught me everything I need it to know about art ,,you tube has the best instructor's on the planet earth lol,Aaron Blaise is an awesome teacher, he works with charcoal, he worked for Disney doing animation for the lion king ,pocahontas ,practically all the Disney movies that all this yeras now he is teaching on you tube. ,you anything you want to learned from ,, also northern Kentucky University, has free classes, when you get chance whatch those channels, you will learn a lot and it's free, God bless you and keep it awesome tutorial thank you, Zoe
This is an amazing tutorial. I'm so glad you explained the reasoning behind everything that you were doing. So many artists assume that their audience has some background knowledge, and I for one do not. I'm just learning and have no background in art at all. Everything I've learned is books, youtube, patreon. You made sense of things I had been told (but no reasoning behind it) and you are a total joy to watch. Checking out your other vids and will subscribe
I have been drawing and painting for a long time. And I still love charcoal (admittedly charcoal pencils are my least favorite form), it's my favorite drawing media, followed closely by ink.
Powdered charcoal and a bristle brush is a brilliant laying in tool. A good rough kraft paper is a wonderful surface. A good drawing (or watercolour) paper that has been primed with gesso or size with a little marble or pumice dust also makes a brilliant surface. My other favorites are sanded paper 400 or 600 grit, velour paper, and rough manilla paper. Primed hardboard or Illustration board is great, and it allows you use rubber cement thinner to move the charcoal around in a painterly fashion.
Like you, I am not a fan of white charcoal. Save for quick sketches, I prefer to work on a toned surface, and need a white. The quality of white in white charcoal varies, but the consistency is always horrible. I prefer a white Conte crayon or pastel. With pastels there are warm and cool whites to choose from. Or for small drawings, I fix the drawing with Spectrafix (casein based in alcohol), and use gouache for the highlights.
You are amazing! I was so lost until watching your video. I had no idea why my professor told us to fill an entire 18x24 page with vine charcoal, or that I wasn't supposed to use vine charcoal for shading. I was getting so annoyed when the stuff would fall off as soon as I did anything with it... Thanks for your vid! I could watch you all day!
Finally! Someone who agrees about white charcoal!
Thank you for this. Just what I need to help me understand a bit about charcoal so that I know something before I attend a workshop at the weekend.
Is it me, or all the artists are beautiful both inside and outside!?
I love white charcoal on black paper. But I get what you're talking about. It draws your eye to that spot.
This video could not have been posted at a more perfect time! I'm doing an assignment for my Cert IV in Visual Arts & I've chosen to use charcoal for the image. Thank goodness you came along with your helpful video today!
So glad I can help! :D
I took a drawing class just for fun, and because I love to draw/paint. Charcoal was the first thing we did. It was so much fun, I can't believe people would not want to do it, it is just simply fun. I don't really remember using pencils, I think we used compressed and erasers, but it has been a long time. This was a great explanation for this subject. I am just getting back into art and I am looking forward to it.
This was excellent and you touched on everything, explaining so well. It was more than I imagined I would get in a tutorial. Thank you so much, Biana.
There are really good tutorials on charcoal technique on UA-cam, made by people who have years of professional experience with the medium and actually know how to use it to its full potential.
I've been using graphite forever ,just recently moved into charcoal n wow !! What a different world 🌍😂. This really helped out. Thanx B. And your gorgeous 🥰. 💥👍💥👍
That's exactly what I stayed for. Thx
Thank you very much. I’m taking into to drawing and this helps a lot with learning to use charcoal
Loved the video, and I loved the music
Wow this video came right in time! Helps me a lot as I'm getting into charcoal now. THANKS :)
thank you for the tutorial, super helpful for a newbie!
Biana, this is an excellent beginner's tutorial. Thank you for taking the time to teach us!!
Man, I loved using charcoal... it’s so much quicker than practically anything to build up a range of values. I mean, this is coming from exclusively a graphite pencil artist until I was like 15, so obviously charcoal just like opened a whole world.
You can get the same sort of look, with slightly more controllable experience and sharper details by using graphite powder and using your kneaded eraser to bring back the whites and regular pencils to bring back the sharp lines. However, you’re then stuck with the metallic shininess of graphite.
Overall an excellent overview of charcoal techniques. I sort of agree with white charcoal and I sort of don’t. More mixing is required for sure, but if you’re working on a cool white paper... you’re fine. Same with a toned paper. It’s in the mid tone range, if you’re not prepared to do some mixing with white charcoal and black that it’s gonna stick out. Of course if you’re going for high contrast the cool white and warm black is only going to emphasize that. I’ve seen some very excellent charcoal pieces that used that to their advantage.
Of course it’s all about knowing your tools and how each individual artist wants to use them... so there’s not really a right or wrong here. But you’ve given something for an artist to consider before breaking out the white charcoal.
Thanks for continually sharing your experience. Hope that you’re enjoying being out of school despite the worries.
Thank you for such an informative comment! I'm glad you liked the video and I'll keep your advice in mind next time I create a charcoal piece ;D
@@BianaBova Oh, I'm all about sharing information. 😉 Thanks for the informative video and things to think about next time I do the same. 😂
I love charcoal
This is sooo helpful thank u so much, and I love how ur so relatable, u make things so much easier
I found this video to be really helpful. I was looking for a video to show when to use each type of charcoal and couldn't find a proper helpful video until I came across this one. This was an eye-opener! Thank you so much!! I appreciate your explanations. Have a wonderful day! :)
Thank you so much! I'm not a professional but I'm a self taught portraitist.
My teacher just tossed charcoal at us and told us go for it, so this was super useful to learn! I wish I had seen this before I had drawn my entire thing in vine charcoal though... oh well, lol.
Amazing. All my questions answered. I started playing around with vine last week and was wondering why it was so hard to shade with it... 😂
Thank you, this helped so much! Due to the COVID-19 closures I have to do a charcoal still life at home, and it’s my first time using charcoal. 😅
Excellent information thank you! I like how you present things in a straight forward way.
Thanks for this video! I just got into creating and charcoal called my name but I want sure what to do with it. Your video really helped!
Presently a junior at MassArt. As someone who had to take studio classes w/charcoal I appreciate this video! Wish I had it back then!
I s2g my entire channel is just me creating videos that would have helped my past self 😅
Your delivery was extremely well done. Speaking about the tools, then showing the process was informative making it quite easy to take notes. Thank you Biana!
One question: Do you suggest a fixative spray to set the final art piece for display?
I'm so sad! Yet another great video ruined by background music! ☹️😫😭😱Why, oh why do that to a perfectly good tutorial full packed if info that would otherwise be joy to watch? Please post this again but in clean version, please? 🥺
I agree totally!
Annoying and distracting background music has marred many otherwise excellent videos.
And, it’s completely unnecessary!
This is a very important video. You've helped me immensely.
show me on the doll where white charcoal hurt you 🙃
serious: thank you for the vid. i really like your teaching style!
Not fond of music choice, but good info on use of charcoal.
Very nice.
Excellent video!!!! This is so helpful. Oh my god. Thank you. 😊
i just find you......... and this is the start of an adventure.... great tutorial ...
Wooôo très beaux vase ❤
Your hair is hair goals!
Great info for a beginner like me thank you from the UK.
Fantastic tutorial. Subscribed!
Stumbled on this while working on a charcoal piece for Massart lol
Excellent. Very helpful. Thanks
Great video! Thank you so much!
Nothing wrong with with using vine charcoal for shading imo. The solution to the problems you describe is pretty obvious; use a fixative...
Three years of study to do this? Oh god!
This is ur first video that I have seen ...n it really really helped me 😊
Super ❤❤❤
Just started in charcoal. This is super useful so thank you but yes agree with some comments..the music is very annoying. You are too good…you don’t need it!
this was extremely helpful for me thank you.
Really enjoyed your instruction and learned a couple of new things, but please find a less distracting background music loop.
Very nice video, I happen to love the look of charcoal, its my favorite medium aside from watercolor. I hate to waste your time, but I have my own UA-cam channel, and was wondering if you, or anyone else reading the comments has any advice on how to get the videos noticed.
I think your drawing is really good even though you don't like it.
That music is super annoying.
helped me so much !
Merci mademoiselle :)
THANK YOU for this video. So helpfu!l
Thank you for a great tutorisl. Im in love with your mouth!
Whats with all the negative attitude towards charcoal in the intro? Its a beautiful medium which is also inexpensive and intuitive to use. Ive never been an artist being so annoyed at having to learn charcoal before.
White charcoal is like white paint in watercolor. Leave the white white.
Hiw come you hardly maje Videos anymore?
Would be nice to see more videos like this.
Why you don’t have at least 1 million subs
also what's the difference between willow and vine? in terms of function or what (i don't really know the right term hehe lol). Thank youuuuu please notice me
Enjoyed the content but that music is so repetitive it’s obnoxious!
Turn on the CC and turn down the music! That's what I do
FML I hate cross hatching! Hahaha!! My anthem!!
Analytical Brain: I agree completely regarding the use of white charcoal. This was very informative. ADD Brain: TELL ME I'M THE ONLY ONE.
Is there anything you can spray to seal a finished drawing, so it doesn't smear later on?? 🤔 🙂
Hi yes there is. You can buy both workable(for pictures you want to continue working on later) and permanent fixative in spray cans. In Australia Micador is one brand but there are others. They will slightly change the appearance of some drawings darkening them a bit.
@@heatherg4286 Okay, thank you so much!! 🙂
How do you remove any loose charcoal powder from yr drawing?
You blend it with a stump or brush but there's a bit of loose powder.
I like your way of teaching. Very nice.
Ps I like white charcoal.
I'm doing a leopard's head on dark cream paper to give the eyes colour.
But leopards have white on their faces . So I'm using white charcoal as well as black.
Great information and generously shared. Thank you so much. The background music is monotonous and irritating. It completes with your message. Please keep helping us. God bless you for it 🕊️💕🎨
Your art work is very beautiful. Thanks.
What kind of paper do you use?
you are good
Why don't you have more videos on charcoal? 🥲
Someone tell her, she is the only one 😂
Can you do acrylic paint or do you just do drawing? I loved the video
Please share the brand name of the tape you used. All the ones I’ve used so far have torn the paper!
How do we clean the chamois to reuse for other charcoal drawings? Or do we need to use or buy another pair
Love the drawing but the repetitive music was so annoying.
Good video, but the ”music” is driving me crazy - No music would be the best, not needed.
Charcoal= painting
"White charcoal" is not white charcoal, it is chalk, which is a totally different material with totally different properties. Still used by many artists, and some - like you - hate it. It's a matter of preference. Nice video though!
Looks like a great video, but I couldn't watch it because of the obnoxious music. Pity.
Is Charcoal archival and lightfast?
Gillina Cook you need a spray fixative to seal the drawing. Be sure to stand back two feet when you spray it so it doesn’t blow too much of the charcoal off. As long as you stand back when you spray it and it wasn’t drawn with just vine charcoal it shouldn’t be a problem though.
not sure if i heard it ryt, but did she say that she studied art in yukon? i really wanna know!
Tbh , this video was damn helpful, of course she reminds of one of my teachers but other than that she really really explains things and they make life much easier.
She was referring to UConn University of Connecticut.
@@dawnh3495 thank you so much
You're so cute (and helpful ^^)
Professor or Master , both troublesome title or name. Teacher or instructor sound better. Learn under = also troublesome
Hey not everybody views charcoal drawing as some horrible thing you HAVE to do. Please with that attitude spare the viewer your negativity.
The tutorial was very informative but her language turned me off. I want to learn about charcoal but don't want to hear the "f" word. So maybe she could work a little on expressing herself without profanity, I will not be subscribing.
To much waffle and not enough action
Not impressed with her 13 minute introduction where she rattles on and on using her hands to talk with too. What is it with the Yanks having to speak so fast?
She finally looks at her canvass at 13:01 -
Terrible, hideous, headache inducing music, which reveals that the video producer suffers from a complete lack of sound judgement. That's why I'm not gonna subscribe or like.
Horrible music
Please please stick with the program ...
It took you a while to get this video started.