Comments on: Rhino with Graphite and White Charcoal

By: Sheila Smart

Sheila Smart — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 06:07:37 +0000

In reply to Susan McCollum. You beat me to it Susan. The same goes for elephants.

By: Anna Lilley

Anna Lilley — Sat, 06 Aug 2022 00:03:14 +0000

Hi Matt! Just wondering if you had a particular brand of white charcoal pencils you recommend? Apologies if it’s mentioned in the videos, but I thought I’d ask here.

By: Sahara Kassam

Sahara Kassam — Sat, 26 Jun 2021 01:27:25 +0000

Thank you for this wonderful lesson. I am originally from east africa and have seen them very closely growing up and have admired this beautiful beast and to finally able to get it down on paper was very emotional. Of course no way close to your Rhino but nevertheless it looks like a rhino and can see where my errors are for a next attempt in the future. Thank you once again.

By: Sahara Kassam

Sahara Kassam — Sun, 20 Jun 2021 20:37:36 +0000

Love your rhino so far. Thank you for this lesson so informative and helped me with getting those wrinkles. Challenging but getting there. Cheers
Sahara

By: matt

matt — Tue, 01 Dec 2020 14:57:21 +0000

In reply to Trever Hansen. Awesome, thanks Trever!

By: Trever Hansen

Trever Hansen — Thu, 26 Nov 2020 05:37:12 +0000

I just wanted to say how grateful I am for this site. I started drawing about 2 years ago. Before that, thinking with the mindset of, not being able to draw something that didn’t look like It was done by my toddler. Using tutorials from all over the web has helped, but it wasn’t until I found this site that my art quality increased dramatically. But even more so was how much more I was enjoying there process. The in depth lessons on each medium along with ebooks have opened me up to trying new avenues in my art, and I’m loving every medium I put in my hands. I especially love the live lessons. To see you make every stroke with an explination on why and how you do it was just the type of instruction I have been longing for. Look forward to being a member for the foreseeable future.

Cheers

By: Ujwala Tamaskar

Ujwala Tamaskar — Fri, 04 Sep 2020 17:28:33 +0000

Thanks Matt! I should have at least started watching lesson 2 before asking the question. But, appreciate your reply.

By: matt

matt — Thu, 03 Sep 2020 17:45:59 +0000

In reply to Ujwala Tamaskar. Hi Ujwala, It's not the quality of the charcoal. Please be sure to watch the lesson series. The order in which you apply the medium is important. You must preserve the areas of highlight and lighter value. The white charcoal will not cover areas where you put moderate to heavy applications of graphite.

By: Ujwala Tamaskar

Ujwala Tamaskar — Thu, 03 Sep 2020 17:36:13 +0000

Hi Matt:

I just bought white charcoal pencils for this project. I have never used this media before so decided to test it first and realized that the white charcoal pencil works fine by itself but it just slides off the graphite marks. Now I am wondering about the quality of the charcoal pencil. I definitely cannot start this drawing with the ones I have. Is there a particular brand of charcoal pencil that I should use? Thanks!

By: Becky Stewart

Becky Stewart — Wed, 08 Apr 2020 18:15:31 +0000

Hello! I am very late to this lesson as it is April now but I am enjoying it. I don’t know what you named your rhino, but I am calling mine “Rona.” Rona Rhino. Done during the self isolation during the pandemic. Thanks for your free instruction.