Comments on: Ostrich with Charcoal

By: Donald Miller

Donald Miller — Tue, 04 Jun 2024 17:19:10 +0000

The ostrich looks “like a Scottish elder rebuking sin from the pulpit.” ~ P.G. Wodehouse

By: Fred Tinsley

Fred Tinsley — Wed, 06 Sep 2023 15:19:10 +0000

Matt, never mind. Loaded finally and working fine.

By: Fred Tinsley

Fred Tinsley — Wed, 06 Sep 2023 15:16:12 +0000

Matt, am attempting to view this live lesson. It only buffers and will not load. Others worked just fine on my iPad Pro. Can you detect any sort of problem on your end. I have refreshed the site, logged out, and restarted the iPad on my end which exhausts my techie skill set. I would appreciate any advice or help you may have to offer. Many thanks, Fred Tinsley

By: Sandra Diaz

Sandra Diaz — Sun, 21 May 2023 06:23:13 +0000

Wow! My drawing turns out to look awesome! I didn’t even know that I would be able to create something like this. Thank you for the tutorial. I had so much fun drawing this ostrich!

By: Anne Wijkamp

Anne Wijkamp — Thu, 21 Oct 2021 19:21:53 +0000

Maybe a bit off topic, but in the beginning of this lesson you said that you can also use watercolor paper, but you’ve never saw gray watercolor paper. I have a block of paper, it’s gray. It’s PaintOn from Clairfontaine. Officially it’s mix media paper, but it can handle paint. I haven’t tried watercolor or inkwash on it, but I want to try it to see how it can handle water. And I have actual black watercolor paper too. Anyway, I love this charcoal lesson, I’m quite new to the medium and today I bought a charcoal pencil. Can’t wait to start using it.

By: Dorothy Gladsjo

Dorothy Gladsjo — Sat, 09 Jan 2021 23:40:15 +0000

That was so much fun!!! I’m a newbie, and I’m impressed with your teaching skills, my ostrich looks like an ostrich! Thank you!

By: matt

matt — Thu, 24 Sep 2020 17:44:01 +0000

In reply to Chinyi Wang. Hi Chinyi, I wish I could tell you. The pencils have compressed charcoal so they are much darker obviously. When using charcoal, I don't really think too much over the grade of the charcoal. If my marks are too dark, I can lift the material with a kneaded eraser or blend to make lighter.

By: Chinyi Wang

Chinyi Wang — Sat, 19 Sep 2020 04:38:16 +0000

Hi Matt, I would like to know the softness of the vine charcoal and hardness of the compressed charcoal that you used in this lesson.Thank you!

By: Charles Culbertson

Charles Culbertson — Sun, 06 Oct 2019 23:11:46 +0000

In reply to Kathy Penrod. I hear him as pronouncing it as "on-gray." In the ear of the beholder!!

By: Christine Robinson

Christine Robinson — Fri, 20 Sep 2019 19:58:36 +0000

In reply to matt. I went and forgot again !! This brain fog memory is terrible but I am going to do this ostrich, it's a great photo. I'll post it on forums as lessons I did with you. One day I might be there on the night, in the year 2050 lol