wow, this is great! thanks so much for sharing with us. have a great day!

Great insight on life. Always a pleasure to hear your thoughts. Great work.

Hi pls skete of caravaggio's face

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You are very enjoyable and you have so much talent! I drew all the time when I was younger and then I became a single mother. Now I’m 65 and drawing again. You are appreciated!

Ive seen many of your videos. I love drswing hair i thinm its vital. Also i have gravitatedvrowards drswing older women . I use charcoal . It brings me joy .

Is using an easel mandatory ?

Thank you 🙏 you should, but don't treat it like grafite

Great video. I use graphite at this time but want to try charcoal.

This is wonderful and magical information Tony. Thanks so very much. Kathy

aka ‘triangulation’.

Very helpful and insightful...thanks Tony

Very Insightful and informative explanation, exemplified precisely by the demonstration. I learned a great deal, or rather a single, profound and important principle, brilliantly communicated. Many thanks. S

Hi Tony, thank you for the knowledge and inspiration you provide on your channel. I've come to drawing very late in life at 64, but I'm enjoying myself so all good. I find drawing takes me so long as I think fear of failure holds me back from expressing myself fully, I just dont seem to be able to go for it as you do which is something I would love to do.

Very interesting tony. I am trying to move to Europe from kuwait.

Fantastic Tony, loved watching it take shape. What a skill man ✌

Thank you Tony, You can't imagine how much joy you bring with your demonstrations/conversations. Thanks to you I rediscovered the pleasure of drawing at an age of 69. I am very grateful for that. Please keep going, best wishes! Godfried

Such a great portrait an d amazing lesson thanks Tony, you are so go at explaining your steps in a very exciting and expressive portrait thank you for doing great videos, I watch one video then I do a portrait and aware as I am do my portrait as I'm doing the steps ,it so makes a difference😊 😊 😀

You’re an absolutely wonderful artist. Any suggestions for a noobie who wants to adopt your approach with soft pastel portraits?

Great video, as always, tony

I see in a previous video you talked about GreatArt for your paper supplies, well I have an undelivered order in so I would recommend not to order from GreatArt they a based in Germany to company name on your cheap paper, have you seen trustpilot reveiws I'm not only one !!!!

Potentially your most important video yet. This is a lovely approach that I intend to tell many others of. Keep up the great work!

Another good one Tony! A leisure 36 minute beautiful portrait, you make it look so dang easy hehe! Cheers!

I did something similar to the phone art game in a first school lesson (I was one of the kids lol) - I remember the drawing I made for the other pupil was a cartoony dog’s face. It was pretty successful apart from not realising it would have been helpful to describe the top of his head as a curved line.

Such ability as you say....wow

Incroyable ! Quel talent ! J'en suis jaloux. Merci pour cette superbe leçon :)

If you could please write your paper choices in the description below the video that would help. Thanks.

What paper you use for charcoal ? and what material you use for pencil, powder charcoal ? Please answer .. Thank you.

Good one Tony! Looks great for difficult paper to blend on. Its funny to watch you cast aside the Nitram stick, Thats my go to brand Ive been using on better paper mind you but you're right is not good stuff or dark enough, but I find myself using it for the basic plotting out of the image mainly because im not confident enough to jump into dark charcoal right away which is where watching your videos comes in to help me! ...BTW The Arbutus charcoal my friend cooked for me is actually really nice! Dark and consistent marks!

Very good motivational video. Thanks Tony ! Reminds me of the Good Thoughts, Bad Thoughts song by Funkadelic. -"You gravitate to that which you secretly love most. You meet in life the exact reproduction of your own thoughts. There is no chance, coincidence or accident. In a world ruled by law and divine order. You rise as high as your dominant aspiration. You descend to the level of your lowest concept of your self. Free your mind and your ass will follow." 😊

Hey Tony! Thanks for this! I watched part of the video turned upside down. A great way to see form shape and tone a bit easier. It was a peek into what you see. Maybe not exactly, but you get my point, hopefully! Good day sir

Hi tony. Is it willow charcoal.or compressed charcoal. ?? And which type of paper used for

I am so proud of you. 🎉🎉🎉.quest of a artist.

Thanks, Tony. 'Talent' is such a damaging concept in my opinion. Used to have this debate all the time with people in my past life as a maths teacher, here in the UK. People would try to tell me that some kids are 'talented' at maths and some aren't. Schools even used to identify groups of kids as 'gifted and talented'. Maybe they still do. For me, that's an horrific way of labelling kids. The book 'Mindset' by Carol Dweck explains why, and pretty much demolishes the concept of 'talent'.

I have no idea how you manage to talk AND draw at the same time. But you do talk a lot of sense. And the drawings aren't too bad either 😅

Perfect chat for all those hours put into achieving beautiful art.

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Great demo, thank you... I never leave comments normally.......what a breath of fresh air. I've only stumbled across you recently, and have been inspired to go back to charcoal after falling out of love with it some time ago, and made great progress. Where did you get this Koh charcoal pencil from? I can only find it in graphite and would love to try one. I'm also keen to try your lessons, not really sure where to start, I'd quite like to watch your dot advice, if you let me know which one it is please it would be very much appreciated. Thanks again for posting your work, so helpful.

Really enjoying the videos; I’m getting back into drawing after several years break. I noticed your initial lines looked a bit like a Roman centurion wearing his helmet 😜

Materials!! so interesting. I watched a guy do a portrait with powdered charcoal, don't know the paper. ALL of the charcoal was applied with brushes: big fluffy one or two. short bristle small one, a bit os smudging. It was so interesting to watch.

When you have talent " proportions" come naturally. That's understandable 😊

Thanks Tony...very helpful demo

Wonderful technique!

I agree with you on the start. I simply want to capture what's in front of me without sketching out a detailed drawing. If I spent too long on that drawing, I get bored with the subject fast. Whatever I would do after that boredom regardless of the rendering, would seem disingenuous.

Hi Tony I emailed you a few days ago about the zero course and how to pay.

Charcoal Drawing is the BEST🎉🎉

beautiful work, as always.

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HE'S COMING TO THE DARK SIDE Be careful Tony it's a slippery slope!!! haha nice work