Why I Only Draw With Charcoal | Portrait Drawing

Josh, I've been watching your video's and in my life of 72 years and having done lots of drawing and painting, I have to say, you are really an inspiration to me! Love your style! Keep up the good work, thank you🙏👌🏼

Watching this awakened something inside me.Thank you

I’ve just randomly came across this channel like 30 minutes ago… how underrated is this!? You’re so talented! God bless you

I don't know why, but I realy got emotional seeing the result. I believe my mind can't process the beauty you created with only charcoal.

I started drawing with charcoal in highschool for art class. I tried to draw it like you would do a pencil drawing and that didn’t work. I can draw faces but not really full body drawings (I can it just takes a few hours) so because of this I almost gave up on art completely. Even anime/manga drawings which I’m good at. When I tried to get back into drawing I hit an art block. it made me hesitant to do art again and also made me rethink what I wanted to be and seeing artist’s drawing that were better than mine made me even more discouraged depressed about art. I came upon one of your charcoal shorts that you did and I asked my art teacher if we(The class)could do more charcoal drawings. He said “No” as he wanted ME and only me to move away from it to focus on other materials…so I stole a pack of charcoal(6-7 sticks), chalk, and practiced at home using your shorts, tutorials and advice. My brother later bought me a charcoal kit for Christmas. I couldn’t find any charcoal or pan pastel in Walmart so my very nice English teacher brought it for me. I owe her one. My art teacher(Whom I learned nothing from as what he was teaching was the basics) let me do what ever after that. We later went deeper into art a little more but that didn’t help at all. NO ONE did art in my school besides me and a few people His lessons and tips didn’t help with ME but YOURS DID. although everyone learns differently. My charcoal drawing started to get WAY better but my family thought I had schizophrenia(But they still thought my artwork was cool) but I don’t think they’re that good. I want to improve more everyday until I can’t. MadCharcoal, you’ve helped me way more than you know when it comes to art. I want to say thank you. Truly. Your talent has made me realize mine.

Thank you for this overview. You are so gifted. I'll need to get my charcoal out. This time I'm wearing gloves.

There are few artists who's work I feel connected to like yours. I appreciate you and your art so much. Praying for you brother!

It's amazing that such chaotic mark-making produces such beautiful art. So full of energy and life! ❤❤❤

Just in love with your process and art!!!

Beautiful painting and equally beautiful words!

AMAZING! I’m in awe 🥹

Josh you’re a legend man

Great video as usual ! Thanks a lot for the inspiring mindset !! ♥️

I do love how expressive your work is. It's very inspiring. I love the whole look of refinement coming out of chaos. It reminds me of the LORD's world on people like me. All rough around the edges and He is gradually refining us.

I love your work so much

I really like your holistic approach to drawing that encourages greater expressive freedom and leads to more dynamic and emotionally engaging results. I find that this artistic technique has a strong analogy with our vision process, in which the eyes quickly move between different points of the subject in order to perceive the whole before the details. The brain tends to recognize shapes and patterns in exactly the same way you work with masses instead of lines. Fascinating!

Respect for this creation G

watching the process of the art give me a great appreciation for it.

Thank you for your thoughts and arts.

This is great stuff. I am really impressed