# Raven in Charcoal

**URL:** <https://community.thevirtualinstructor.com/t/raven-in-charcoal/4724>\
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**Created:** [March 18, 2026, 7:40pm UTC](https://community.thevirtualinstructor.com/t/raven-in-charcoal/4724 "2026-03-18T19:40:56Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![tracidraws](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.thevirtualinstructor.com/tracidraws/32/8361_2.png) [@tracidraws](https://community.thevirtualinstructor.com/u/tracidraws)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2026, 7:40pm UTC](https://community.thevirtualinstructor.com/t/raven-in-charcoal/4724/1 "2026-03-18T19:40:56Z")

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I’ve only done the “Basic Forms” lesson in the “Charcoal Drawing Course” so I really have no idea what I am doing here but I couldn’t wait to see how charcoal works with details so I thought I would play around with it. I strayed far from the purpose of the “Raven in Charcoal” lesson and it’s far from accurate tonally but I learned a lot about the medium doing this and for me it’s always better to work on a subject that I have a strong interest in. Surprisingly it is not as messy as I thought it would be and edges and stray charcoal dust on the drawing clean up easily. Nevertheless, I’m off to give my drawing table a thorough cleaning and probably anything else I have touched during this drawing.

 ![20260318_131329 final](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/uploads/thevirtualinstructor/original/2X/6/629e5f743011019a0d55bd55030e564829fa6c00.jpeg)

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**Author:** ![siffermus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/977dab/32.png) [@siffermus](https://community.thevirtualinstructor.com/u/siffermus)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2026, 9:31am UTC](https://community.thevirtualinstructor.com/t/raven-in-charcoal/4724/2 "2026-03-20T09:31:27Z")

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Wow - this really great. Love it.

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**Author:** ![tracidraws](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.thevirtualinstructor.com/tracidraws/32/8361_2.png) [@tracidraws](https://community.thevirtualinstructor.com/u/tracidraws)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2026, 10:46am UTC](https://community.thevirtualinstructor.com/t/raven-in-charcoal/4724/3 "2026-03-20T10:46:25Z")

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@siffermus Thank you! It was really fun to explore working this way with charcoal.

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**Author:** ![theresebriggs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e47c2d/32.png) [@theresebriggs](https://community.thevirtualinstructor.com/u/theresebriggs)\
**Post date:** [March 30, 2026, 8:32pm UTC](https://community.thevirtualinstructor.com/t/raven-in-charcoal/4724/4 "2026-03-30T20:32:39Z")

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What a great Raven Traci! Really love his feet!