Comments on: Charcoal Drawing Course – Basic Forms

By: matt

matt — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 13:31:33 +0000

In reply to Donna Chow. Awesome Donna!

By: Donna Chow

Donna Chow — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 17:38:28 +0000

By far this is THE best tutorial on shading, shadows, and values. I’ve always struggled getting it right, whether it is charcoal, graphite or other mediums. Now I can see the light through the cloud of charcoal!

By: Mary Williams

Mary Williams — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 23:40:46 +0000

This lesson alone was worth the cost of annual membership! Thank you so much

By: Connie Ebinger

Connie Ebinger — Tue, 05 Dec 2023 19:41:50 +0000

Hi Matt! This is my first course on your website. I’m finding it, oh-my-gosh-hard to even get the form shapes on there in the correct proportions. I don’t have any experience in drawing prisms or pyramids or spheres, and shading them. I thought if you drew a rectangle, brick shape that the angles on each end would be the same, and would be the same length. Not so at all. Think I might need to stop here and go back and see if I can find something that gives me some more basics. If you have any recommendations? Let me know.

By: Tom Billings

Tom Billings — Thu, 08 Dec 2022 23:59:24 +0000

Matt, I heard you say on “Getting Sketchy” that this course was not getting a lot of traffic on your website. Well, I’ve waited for this course and I love it. I started using graphite, am currently learning colored pencils and have experimented with charcoal–and I love it! It is such a rich, flexible, easy medium and I, for one, am delighted you’re doing this. I can’t wait to see the portrait you’re developing now using white charcoal on black paper. Thanks so much for doing this!

By: Linda Emerick

Linda Emerick — Thu, 13 Oct 2022 14:57:22 +0000

Really enjoying the charcoal course. I find I need to remind myself to slow down and focus on one form at a time until my skill improves. The drawing course was an excellent prequel. Thank you.

By: Humberto Guardado

Humberto Guardado — Tue, 16 Aug 2022 06:27:12 +0000

I started today as full membership, and charcoal is incredibly delicate. Nevertheless, since I am on the process of completing 25 days to better drawing, it is going to be fun. My only problem is that I cannot find the charcoal pencils I bought, in the midst of my drawing room.

By: alan shapiro

alan shapiro — Thu, 04 Aug 2022 19:27:31 +0000

this is really great… i love charcoal… more please… human figures and horses maybe?

By: Jan Van Eycke

Jan Van Eycke — Tue, 02 Aug 2022 18:09:48 +0000

I am looking for the Video for Charcoal drawing of a face started it’s couple months ago.
Thanks for your help. Cheers Jan Van Eyck

By: Tom Billings

Tom Billings — Fri, 10 Jun 2022 20:58:57 +0000

I imagine art students start out with charcoal, but learning on my own I started out with graphite, so charcoal is a new medium to me. Consequently, I appreciate seeing how you use the vine charcoal and charcoal pencil together to create an effect. I look forward to more lessons and more diverse subject matter.