How to Draw a Horse with Charcoal

Learn how to draw a horse with black and white charcoal on gray charcoal paper in this lesson. Vine and compressed charcoal are applied, along with white and black charcoal pencil to complete the drawing.
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[@corakiart]

Love horses. Doing a colored pencil painting of 2 horses eye to eye.

[@pitrgreat]

Very beautiful, as an IT guy I am just silently watching and buying supplies and I am curious when will be finally the time when I will reserve my evening for drawing/painting, but maybe in few months when I break down because of this quarantine yeah I will find the time. Thanks for the inpiration.

[@hasanavi]

I feel your pain man. I'm also an IT guy and quarantine isn't for me. Fed up with this remote work. Took a few months off and following the Virtual instructor's tutorial. He is a very good tutor it helped me a lot.

[@atticus_ink9487]

Yeah, that hairstyle was pretty amazing - as was the drawing!

[@Lucky-ik1we]

It's been a while I haven't watch your videos. It's good to lay in bed during night while watching a video about drawing, greetings from Minnesota, USA! ❤

[@ashokpradhan1980]

You are a great teacher creating confidence in the young artist. Thank you.

[@vivioprea4046]

Wonderful! Going to draw this as well. Thanks for the turorial, man!

[@thevirtualinstructor]

Awesome - thanks!!!

[@RhondaStockArt]

Beautiful! I love the final result. Charcoal is one of the few things I haven't tried yet, and this is definitely inspiring me to attempt it.

[@brentboyer79]

Man I love charcoal. I'm not quite a good at it as Matt but I really enjoy it. Great drawing Matt!!

[@thevirtualinstructor]

Thanks a bunch!

[@yeab8634]

You're so talented!

[@thevirtualinstructor]

Thanks Yeab - a lot of work and practice = "talented".

[@ashokpradhan1980]

You are a wonderful painter and Instructor

[@vitamincalmasmr]

Loved every second of this. I would like to give charcoal a try along with graphite pencils. This was very informative and a joy to watch. Thank you

[@komathiveeraswamy2174]

As usual very inspiring video, thankyou Mr. Matt for this tutorial.

[@Heav22288]

Amazinggggggggggggg

[@nudgehole_2807]

Your drawing is always interesting.🥰 I enjoyed your video today.💕

[@shamsart]

Very beautiful drawing

[@bulentakkas4937]

super 🥰🥰🥰🥰

[@patrickaerts2345]

Man you're good. I will say this only once : " WAAUW" !!! : - D

[@thevirtualinstructor]

Thanks Patrick!

[@shrabantimaitra8525]

Sir you are my first art teacher and you are really god for me

[@thevirtualinstructor]

Thank you so much 😀

[@LemonEyesNL]

Amazing video!!

[@colincannings7946]

Amazing charcoal drawing! Very good narration, of what is happening, and the techniques use. Can I ask, What was the overall time frame, for this drawing?

[@HarrycaneArtsandCraftsOfficial]

Hi Dad,, you are amazing. I enjoy watching your tutorials. I love the details step by step. You are such talented artist Dad. 🤩😍🤩😍🤩😍

[@thevirtualinstructor]

Thanks Harrycane - is there something I don't know here? I know I have four children, but I didn't know I had a 5th. :)

[@jamieaugustyn9548]

I’m very confused

[@leonylopez4604]

I have a horse to draw in charcoal, but this one looks so cute.

[@slepovicheva]

Great . That 's good when artist can draw without to thinking how to find time and money for his passion. You are very nice man. Here in Russia it's not easy, everything is very expensive. You are very nice man,by the way).

[@thevirtualinstructor]

Thank you so much 😀

[@letslearntoart3470]

Love your videos! 🤞🏼💙

[@johnlipscombdocumentaries]

master instructor.

[@Tiktokworld811]

Beautiful🐎🐎

[@mdkhajapasha22]

Comments pls

[@thevirtualinstructor]

Many many thanks

[@lvmylord54]

Awesome!

[@andybeeley]

Hi Matt what size are the squares you used on the grid? Thanks.

[@leonylopez4604]

Now, I have charcoal paper, which makes it better to draw.

[@jamieaugustyn9548]

I ride horses but can’t draw very well (I struggle to draw a stick fugitive) Beautiful drawings tho!

[@astoria791]

why would you use such a bad photo as a horse portrait? The horse's long head is always an issue because of foreshortening.

[@mikeholderr]

Nice

[@mdkhajapasha22]

Comments pls

[@thevirtualinstructor]

Thanks

[@nunyabiznes33]

Too hard. Me I just pouf my face with charcoal dust and then slam my face on paper. You really are good sir!

[@bhaviarora8982]

First

[@brianedwards7142]

You don't draw a horse. You hitch her up and she draws you. Especially if she's a draft horse.

[@bilalamjad315]

More like how to shade a horse

[@thevirtualinstructor]

Yes, shading is part of drawing.