Price: $34.91
(as of Jan 08, 2025 11:17:14 UTC - Details)

Discover charcoal in the versatile XL blocks format. Naturally water-soluble and highly versatile large blocks with soft texture, delivering smooth smudge effects. The tin includes six greyscale shades. Create bold and agile marks with the strength and body of Derwent Charcoal XL Blocks. Each pastel-like block contains a high volume of formula, equivalent to 8 pencils. Ergonomically designed to fit comfortably in your hand, use the blocks for large scale drawings or use the edges and corners to add fine detail and line work. As charcoal is naturally water-soluble, small amounts of water can be added to manipulate the texture for interesting effects. The soft texture of the charcoal delivers smooth smudge effects for broad coverage. Break into pieces or grate into powder to add textures and details. Get messy with this extra-large block.
Derwent Charcoal XL Blocks in a range of greyscale shades. Naturally water-soluble and highly versatile for broad coverage and expressive mark making.
Soft charcoal in a variety of greyscale shades in XL format for broad coverage, bold marks, agile lines and smooth smudging.
Soft in texture, to create smooth smudge effects. Use your hand or a paper stump to manipulate over a large area.
Break into pieces or grate into a powder for detail and textures. Each block contains a high volume of formula, equivalent to eight pencils.
Contents: 1 x Derwent Charcoal XL Blocks, includes 6 XL blocks in Light, Medium, Black, Blue Black, Yellow Black, Ultra Black
Reviewer: Jake
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Well pigmented.
Review: Using these charcoals for artwork. They are richer than vine charcoal when used with water and so smooth. Fun to work with.

Reviewer: Jody Leichner
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: you get a lot, and won't run out fast, so the expense is justifiable
Review: I love these big chunky graphite blocks. They are in a nice tin with padding, and I think the cut out foam that the blocks sit in are the way to keep them lasting. I find it is better to rub a block on a piece of pallet paper, and paint from that, rather than use it like pan watercolors. over time they can crumble if you use them that way a lot like do. I will replace them and not use the new ones like pan paint.I love the affect, the colors, the grainy affects, and how wonderful it to spread, blend and lay down. It's not good for layers upon layers. the bottom layers reactivate, if you are using water, but you can do many layers dry, and use a springy stiff dry brush to lay it down, blend, and fix it with a mat workable fixative, you can paint dry, layer upon layer, and I think I can work bigger, than if Im using pencils, by using larger dry brushes for blending. this works great on bristol, and bristol velum. I think these blocks will stay a staple in my kit. I have not used them yet with inktense blocks, or the inktense pan watercolor but I am planning to soon. I hope you give these a try, and enjoy them as much as I do.

Reviewer: Roger D.
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Beautiful
Review: I'm not a particular artist really...more-so, a particular 'Medium/art supply' collector. LOL. The blocks were broke when I opened the tin box and I was a little pissed, but when I applied water to the blocks I was no longer pissed. ;)... The difference in opaqueness between a broken and unbroken block is night and day. If the blocks had not been broken i would have gone through sheets of paper before getting the right consistency and solid colors. What's really cool is, you can shave these and place the powder into a water-base acrylic medium. I use the slow dry medium and it's almost like painting with acrylics. And you can decide what ratio of medium to create whatever opacity of that shade.

Reviewer: Naomi H.
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Good choice
Review: These blocks came highly recommended to me so I decided to buy them. And to my surprise, they are really as good as everyone was saying they were. They blend so well together and work so well with acrylic paints, watercolor paints, just about anything you use them with. Wonderful block.

Reviewer: FlowerChild
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Pricey imo, but I like it.
Review: Using it like watercolors so far. Expensive imo, but happy with it. Seems well made.

Reviewer: Jackie Beckett
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Fantastic product
Review: I’ve done a few paintings with theseAnd really like the shimmer the createHighly Recommended

Reviewer: K
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great pigment, but came broken.
Review: I don’t so much mind the broken charcoals upon arrival. I don’t prefer it, of course, but as a hyper-realistic artist, the pigmentation is of much more significance.I posted a photo of my current, unfinished drawing that i have been using these charcoals in. The way it applies on Arches hot pressed paper is fantastic. Smooth finish, good transitions and each one is pigmented so well.I definitely recommend getting them if you’re interested, but buyer must be aware that they very well might come broken.

Reviewer: Chuck Furnace
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Nice for smooth, easy broad strokes
Review: nice choices for rhythm quick sketches and underpaintings, I follow up with a water brush to add even more texture

Reviewer: A realidade de Madhu é um romance ficcional muito bom, leitura leve. Adorei.
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Depois de seco precisa colocar spray fixador de sua preferência.

Reviewer: Cláudia
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Produto bem pigmentado. Bom deslize sobre o papel.

Reviewer: Maria Rosa
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: A tiempo y bien empaquetado y en su caja de lata. Vinieron 2 rotos pero es q realmente son delicados y finalmente se pueden usar en 2 tamaños al cortarlos.Es la segunda variante que compro. Se pueden usar con agua. Hermosos,aunque advierto que son tonos apagados. El verde es muy bonito y el azul es algo verdoso.

Reviewer: Leonardo Arturo Sánchez
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Los productos Derwent son de calidad óptima, nunca me han defraudado, aun no he probado estos carboncillos, pero se que será un placer utilizarlos y los resultados serán muy buenos. El producto llegó en tiempo e intacto.

Reviewer: Tasha G.
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: These work beautifully. The color is rich, and applies nicely.One piece in the set arrived broken in spite of the sponge packaging inside the tin. I love the tin, by the way - I'll be happy to reuse or repurpose it when the charcoal is gone. Perhaps if Amazon packed it in a better sized box, or with adequate padding, it might not have bounced around as much, but I can't be sure it broke in transit between the warehouse and the pickup location... In the end, it's usable, just broken, so I won't complain too loudly.