Charcoal Painting Techniques & Tutorials for Beginners

This tutorial helps you to make your drawing skills more realistic and let you know what are those techniques step by step.

How to Draw With Charcoal

• Charcoal drawing is a well-recognized media. Very professional-looking black-white images can be drawn just with a little chunk of charcoal and eraser. It's like making abstract photos without using a computer. Charcoal is also a good way of learning gray gradients and lighting techniques. But many people wondered how those images are made to look so cool with just a piece of charcoal.



Original post found here, click the link for step by step tutorial: http://www.wikihow.com/Draw-With-Charcoal



How to Draw a Charcoal Portrait from Start to Finish with a Realistic Effects.

In this tutorial I’m going to show you the quickest and easiest way to create a nice moody black and white portrait with charcoal.

I’ll be using a source image from http://www.historicalstockphotos.com which has some really nice (and free to use!) black and white photos.



Original post found here, click the link for step by step tutorial: http://emptyeasel.com/2010/08/23/how-to-draw-a-charcoal-portrait-from-start-to-finish-the-easy-way/



How to Put a Shadow for your Flat Drawing Sketch.

When it comes to black and white drawing, no other medium is as rich and satisfying as charcoal. The velvety darks and the ability to create loose, gestural marks are what make charcoal so unique.

Original post found here, click the link for step by step tutorial:http://www.craftsy.com/blog/2013/08/introduction-to-drawing-with-charcoal/