How to draw a realistic black cat in charcoal - tutorial

In this video, I am drawing a black cat in realistic style using charcoal pencils and I take you through all of the process from the first layer to the final details. Many people struggle with black subjects so hopefully this will offer some assistance. The techniques can be useful for other dry mediums such as pastel too.
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[@lindarusinko103]

Amazing art, as usual !!

[@TmHudsonArt]

Thank you....:)

[@MG-vo7yn]

another fascinating, extremely helpful video!!! thank you!!!! and yet another stunning artwork!! congratulations on getting 3,000 subscribers!! and congrats on your super thanks!!! if i come into some money, i will definitely give you a super thanks!!
so you have received input that people find drawing/painting black animals difficult. that, oddly, is the opposite of me. my hardest color is a white animal. black animals generally have some kind of shine or sheen to their fur (or feathers). and if there is "shine", i am so happy!!! bridles on horses, all of the metal, beaks on birds, wet noses on dogs, eyes on everything - that is my happy place.
i have a relative who owns a white husky dog, and i don't feel that i can accurately paint the dog bcz there isn't enough shadow information in the photos for me to really grasp the bones structure - or even the nuances of all the fur - from the photos that i've seen. i feel that the painting will be much too flat if i were to try it. i'm thinking about taking one of the photos, putting it into photoshop elements and messing with the values and contrast to sort of give me some more information about the shapes, etc. on this white husky dog.
i found some very old art paper for charcoal the other day while i was going through some old stuff. maybe i will try charcoal one day. i have some, but it is the thick sticks (square) and i struggle to get the level of detail that i want. maybe i will actually buy some charcoal pencils. but money is always so tight.
thank you, again!!!

[@TmHudsonArt]

Thank you and yes I agree....I find black animals to be easy compared to white. A little tip for doing white animals...photograph them with the sun behind them. You get lovely backlighting around the edges and darker but pleasant values on the face with blues and other hues going on. Works well for white dogs and done a few that way.
I think money is tight for many of us these days.

[@MG-vo7yn]

@@TmHudsonArt thank you for the tip!! i will ask her to try to get photos like that. she lives 12 hours away (driving), so i don't see her very often. we keep in touch online and over the phone mostly.

[@reiina]

omg THANK YOU soo much!! I love working with charcoal but I've always sucked with fur, let alone a black cat

[@TmHudsonArt]

Glad you found it helpful....:)

[@travisnobleart]

Amazing work. I love charcoal.

[@TmHudsonArt]

Thanks....Charcoal has only been onmy mediums for the last two years and I do enjoy it a lot...

[@mommadomingo1440]

So beautiful

[@TmHudsonArt]

Thank you...x

[@Tazm1n]

Find all your videos helpful, and love the charcoal ones especially. I hope you do manage to get a patreon set up, and if/when you do I hope you do all mediums on there. It's hard to find good tutors that show their process for varied mediums, most stick to just one or two on patreon and then you find yourself having to keep signing up to different people, which is fine but can get expensive. Anyway great job on the vids, and thank you for sharing your knowledge.

[@TmHudsonArt]

Thanks and I'm glad you find them helpful. The charcoal videos never do as well as the acrylic ones so it's good to know some people are appreciating them because I obviously do far more of them and can thus do more videos....and I also get more variety of subjects in charcoal....it's practically all dogs in acrylic.