1d420@lemmy.world to Traditional Art@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-29 months agoThis is the result of my first attempt at making my own charcoal to draw with and I couldn't be happier. Leucistic Curtains by L. Lamm (me) Charcoal, 2024lemmy.worldimagemessage-square16fedilinkarrow-up1156arrow-down14file-textcross-posted to: drawing@lemmy.world
arrow-up1152arrow-down1imageThis is the result of my first attempt at making my own charcoal to draw with and I couldn't be happier. Leucistic Curtains by L. Lamm (me) Charcoal, 2024lemmy.world1d420@lemmy.world to Traditional Art@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-29 months agomessage-square16fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: drawing@lemmy.world
I’m looking forward to practicing with this medium more, I used to love it but I haven’t done anything with it in years.
minus-square1d420@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·9 months agoI noticed a lot of companies (Coates for example) make their charcoal out of willow and I always liked those companies because they’re really smooth and dark. A couple of weeks ago the willow tree in my back yard lost a branch so I broke it up into pencil-sized pieces and used TKOR’S paint can method for making charcoal. It was super easy and once everything cooled down I wrapped my favorite ones in painters tape and put the rest in a box! Here’s a pic of the ones I used to draw that. I think the different shapes they came out in gave me a cool variety of different tools but I should have straightened some of them out when I was drying the branch.
I noticed a lot of companies (Coates for example) make their charcoal out of willow and I always liked those companies because they’re really smooth and dark. A couple of weeks ago the willow tree in my back yard lost a branch so I broke it up into pencil-sized pieces and used TKOR’S paint can method for making charcoal. It was super easy and once everything cooled down I wrapped my favorite ones in painters tape and put the rest in a box! Here’s a pic of the ones I used to draw that. I think the different shapes they came out in gave me a cool variety of different tools but I should have straightened some of them out when I was drying the branch.