Traditional Art

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This is the result of my first attempt at making my own charcoal to draw with and I couldn't be happier. Leucistic Curtains by L. Lamm (me) Charcoal, 2024 (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by 1d420 to c/traditional_art

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I'm looking forward to practicing with this medium more, I used to love it but I haven't done anything with it in years.

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[–] TragicNotCute 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Is everyone here just ignoring the “made your own charcoal” part or is it really that commonplace? I’m curious what kind of material you started with, I’d assume wood? Did you prepare it in any specific way? I know you can do pyrolysis in just a couple of tin cans, but I’m also curious if you used anything special for the production. Very cool!

[–] 1d420 3 points 4 months ago

I noticed a lot of companies (Coates for example) make their charcoal out of willow and I always liked those companies because they're really smooth and dark. A couple of weeks ago the willow tree in my back yard lost a branch so I broke it up into pencil-sized pieces and used TKOR'S paint can method for making charcoal. It was super easy and once everything cooled down I wrapped my favorite ones in painters tape and put the rest in a box! Here's a pic of the ones I used to draw that. I think the different shapes they came out in gave me a cool variety of different tools but I should have straightened some of them out when I was drying the branch.