Charcoal Drawings
The most common forms of charcoal used by artists are vine charcoal, compressed charcoal and powdered charcoal. Vine charcoal is created by burning sticks of wood such as willow into soft, medium, and hard consistencies. Compressed charcoal consists of charcoal powder and gum binder molded into round or square sticks. Finely powdered charcoal is often used to tone large sections of a drawing.