


Initially, the artists used common charcoal, preferring walnut, willow and grapes. The charcoal painting technique appeared about the 15th century. Charcoal drawings teach you to see the main and secondary details in sketches for a future picture, build a general composition, use a paper background as a color, and give excellent skills in toning and shading. However, the apparent simplicity of the material does not mean that learning to draw with charcoal is an elementary skill at all. Charcoal drawings are one of the first art lessons for beginner artists who start their path to painting. A piece of burnt wood is perhaps the first art material that humanity began to use for drawing.
