Essential Art Tools You Need - FREE Art Tutorial (link in my channel) 

nah bro, I sense BjornBjorn needed this and got up mid of night to get it done.

my pleasure

@@ThePortraitArt I first discovered your channel a year or more ago thru your reaction video for Dimash' SOS. I really enjoyed a music video you did for a female singer. Great, inspiring work!

It was the "Rough Draft" Sarah Solovay music video

@@bradseward8342 oh ye, that was a fun one. took a while but different. Didn't really do any planning just went with the lyrics.

it's fine, don't over think it. Those are fine, expensive, but perfectly fine to start to learn! I'm not sure how they blend / if you want to blend them but that's something you can experiment with. (not that blending is a must, just a particular style that make certain things a bit easier)

@@ThePortraitArt Oh - it was about the same price as charcoal, and I'm always nervous with charcoal cause I'm such a big mess with them XD I'm not sure how to blend with them either. Polychromos can thin out with spirits so I might try that, but IDK how good that is for the paper >.> I might need to put my big girl pants on and try charcoal a second time XD Last time I used it I was pretty young on my art journey, and I didn't know there was different densities of charcoal available. Perhaps having a density that works with me may help me like the medium better :)

@@Arkillian just my opinion, well...and that of most artist. you kinda have to know how to use charcoal for most cases. Otherwise unless you solely focus on oil paint or watercolor or something, u gonna hit a wall. (but even the top oil painters in the world today start out with charcoal) check out my other video, 2 videos ago called "why is charcoal the most prevalent tool"

@@ThePortraitArt Will do :) I like the tone depth of Charcoal. Do you have any videos on how to approach a charcoal portrait?

@@Arkillian i been on YT for 15 years god knows what I have. But I can always just make new ones.

yes it's mostly soft-medium-hard, but it's really just a matter of semantics and numbering system. Almost like a marketing thing. Many charcoal brands (including the largest one in USA) have grades that follows graphite just so people understand them easier.

@@ThePortraitArt i've always assumed H-B grading is strictly for graphite pencils because of their less pure-black value. thank you

@@NaPH273 HB is "Generally" for beginners who start out. Artist more likely to move toward harder to control, but more malleable tools over time. Think charcoal, soft pastel, oil paint.