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I was hoping I would see you again, I find your technique quite interesting. Thanks for sharing.

Your artwork is literally so awesome.

hello are you working on a project in one session or do you make pauses? If you make pauses how do you store your charcoal for it not to be erased by draft and wind, are you using workable fixatif between sessions?

Well, that was interesting, in the early part I could see a birds head, then more toward the end I could see a small dags head, then you couldn't leave it alone and I lost any vision of a shape and the video ended. I would like to see what you finally came to see in it.

I am certain there was a goblin in the right hand corner......peeking.

I use KUM metal sharpeners - a long point for pencils and 2mm for mech. It is cheap and leave super sharp point. I have not used charcoal

Question, if you can please. The small black hand sharpener, on the bottom of your video, with the two ports, I would like to try. What is the name of it? Thank you - Joseph

Hello Eric, I became inspired by your art to try this and immediately ran into a problem. I see how easily you can use a brush and instantly pull up charcoal to create lighter value. I payed charcoal powder down and when using a brush it doesn’t pull out much. I can’t seem to create any rich darks and lights with a brush. An eraser works somewhat but nothing like what you’re doing. I’m sure you’ve come across this at some -lint and was wondering if you could point me in the direction of what the problem might be

Beautifull piece

Hey Eric. If you were new drawing, where the hell do you start?

Embossing powder does amazing things for line work. I have also used it like the commenter above to create filled in quasi ‘bumped up’ sections of the image. You can also put it on top of your piece when you finish if you are worried about changing your charcoal values. I just want to give you a small warning though: embossing powder comes off pretty easily if you don’t heat set the embossed image. It’s designed for you to be able to brush off the extra after the heat set so it can be finicky. You are melting it like using one of the acrylic mediums that have grit in them. It’s awesome stuff for effects but doesn’t bind well without the heat. The pigment powder can be used exactly like your charcoal. I was in a guild at Binders in Atlanta and they would let reps talk to us at meetings so I got the great demos for just my guild fee. It was awesome. Have fun playing! 😊 PS: I subscribed! 😊

I TURNED UP my video quality to be able to see glitter BUT somehow i don't think we are getting the full effect unfortunately

Embossing powder can be melt down with a heat gun. It probably will be sort of a fixate. Greeting card creator occasionally use it as a dam for the watercolor flow. I expected to see you working with ridged from the embossing.

Nice , thank you .

The color really made the character really pop. Thanks for sharing.

Interesting combination of mediums.

plz make a video on charcoal art for beginners like me and others ...so far i have only seen portraits and most of the approach is very messy .. so a good video on a simple object or scene would do great ..any way thanks for having me as a subscriber

Love your work!

Love the art! ❤ so glad youtube recommended this to me

It didn't even register as an insignificant element in the video. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Bad hair day? Never mind.

Panpastel can be lifted with garden variety Faber-Castell eraser at least from the FABRIANO® Tiziano pastell paper. I checked other brands in my collection with mixed results from not at all to slightly. Sadly I couldn't find my Faber-Castell eraser pen, but both the white in a slide-out plastic sleeve and both sides from the blue and red school eraser worked splendidly.

yeah, me too broo

I think derwent make coloured charcoal and graphite. Thank you for sharing your experiment, your painting turned out very cool. Cheers!

I’ve been using pan pastel for a few years. A kneaded eraser will lift panpastel.

i am not sure if its just me but from minute 9:15 on its just a black image without sound.

I'm learning a lot from your generous sharing of your techniques. One question: Is there a reason that you only post 720p resolution on your channel? Given how much detail your work has in the charcoal, I'm constantly wishing for some 4K! Thanks.

Great, THANKS!

You are a delight! I appreciate the honesty in your approach and your real-time talk and problem-solving. Keep em coming!

love it 😀

This is really cool!!, is that on pastel paper?

Maybe it behaves more like watercolour? Try and wet the charcoal paint on the paper and see if you can lift off the charcoal with a clean wet brush and a piece of kitchen paper. But that technique may not give you the same thin light lines as the kneaded eraser will.

A mr. Clean eraser ( like for your kitchen ) will pretty much remove pastels, use it dry. Love this video.

Didn't even notice the hair. Now I gotta go back & check 😁

Hi what paper do you like to do charcoal drawing on and also ,do you use a fixitive at the conclusion of the artwork ?

You actually don't realise the manufacturers of pencils and graphite products MUST work to specifications. You're being very disrespectful to them AND your future products. You requested graduations but now you're ignoring them. You're NOT ALLOWED to use a 2B pencil, lightly. Cause YOU REQUESTED MANUFACTURING SPECIFICATIONS. The manufacturers did what you requested. Now you're just throwing all that in the trash and doing whatever you feel like. Which is laying down a minus value layer of material. That minus value layer doesn't survive for a long time after you're life is over. Your lead has a radius measurement. You're using the middle value of the diameter of that value lead. The manufacturers specify the amount of material you MUST LAY DOWN ON THE SURFACE to obtain the specifications. Your light layers are actually -90 setting. You paid for the manufacturer to build you something that puts down a thick layer that lasts for many centuries but you put down a minus 90% layer of thickness. You didn't lay down a surface to conserve over time. You can see marks on the paper but that's not a layer of material. You MUST STOP yourself, cause the manufacturer IS DOING THE WORK, not YOU. You smear the paper with a thick layer of material and the material will eventually show the manufacturers did their job in mixing the material in the pencil, to exact specifications. The 2B pencil will only show its true colour when you put down a THICK EVEN LAYER of the material. You're not allowed to skimp on the material in the pencil. You're not allowed to vary your pressure when laying down the material. You must put down a layer thickness that matches the manufacturers specifications. Only then will you see the HB or 2H values appear. You're working below the minimum layer thickness for the pencil medium material. You must apologise for your videos and correct your wrong knowledge and learn to put down a greater amount of material onto the paper so it can be fully seen and be conserved at a later date.

You didn't actually review the pencil. You drew with the pencil and chatted. You didn't do a final summary either. So I can't give you a thumbs up or down.

Thanks for your vids! Just curious though, i thought that Generals doesnt make the ex hard pencil anymore. I dont even find them in the store. Any knowledge about that?

What do you use to seal your charcoal drawings?

I always enjoy watching someone's process of starting a drawing because it is something I continuously struggle with and is what 99% of the time ends up pushing me away from drawing and I run back to watching CZcams videos about it while doodling...lol. Anywho, what makes you decide to use charcoal powder vs. graphite powder?

Very cool technique, Eric!

Amazing drawing !!😮✨thank you for sharing

And do you spray your work?

Hi. Just found your work on youtube. Can you talk about your brushes and paper please. Thanks.

Great idea. Thank you! And i love the guitar piece you have in the background!! What is that? Who is that musician?

Thank you for sharing. It looks nice!

u got any art for sale bruv

Hello, I have some questions : -Are you still working first with underlayer charcoal powder then using graphite then charcoal pencils again or did you change since the first videos and just work only in charcoal? - When I try to use charcoal powder then a brush on the powder, the powder just go away completely. I seen in a video from before you used a big plat brush to push the charcoal in the fiber but when I do it, it just push the charcoal away from the paper. Does it mean my paper is too smooth? Thanks for the great channel.

Harkens back to when we got some new media, like crayons, pencils or paint, and you just had fun playing around. Exploring what you can achieve with it.

Awesome! I need to experiment with this! Does the pastel saturate at all the paper? I am assuming the graphite over that will feel very different than graphite on the paper?

Very nice , thank you for sharing . I like the result .