To preempt any possible messes or mistakes, once your drawing is complete, you can use a fixative spray or hairspray to ensure that the charcoal doesn’t move around.

Though this pack is a way to salvage miscuts and damages during the process as they are shorter than the usual marketable length, the quality remains the same.When you subscribe you get a chance each month to be drawn by Smashing Pencils and have it sent to you. It also does a lot of work, including smudging effects, blending, erasing, and other similar techniques you can use to use charcoal as a medium. They also love the smooth application and the cardboard tube packaging you may reuse for other art supplies. Instead of being made from grapevines, willow charcoal is made from carbonized willow tree branches.

Because they stayed in the kiln for longer to achieve the extra-soft grade, these charcoal sticks are also the most brittle in the Gumbacher Vine charcoal sticks. You can also try the scene painter’s assorted set that consists of 12 full-length charcoal sticks of different sizes, ranging from 7mm to 12mm. Both compressed charcoal (held together by a gum or wax binder) and charcoal sticks (wooden sticks burned in a kiln without air) are used. The Grumbacher Vine Charcoal is excellent vine charcoal with a coating on the outside that’s supposed to help the charcoal less brittle.Every batch is baked to perfection to have the consistent quality for every package that arrives at the users. For someone who loves to draw as a hobby, artists agree that this art set is an excellent starter kit. The willow will shrink in the charcoaling process, and two full tins of prepared willow will fit into a single tin after they are turned to charcoal.