Always take photos of your artwork and create when and where you can so you can see your progress and tweak your process or materials. Nitram Charcoal was the first charcoal I felt comfortable enough sketching and blending with. It was seemless to sharpen this was about an hour on Strathmore Charcoal paper in Nitram variety pack of hard to soft charcoals. Many people prefer this and the movement tô graphite sketching. art artist progress learning selftaught charcoal portrait Nitram NitramCharcoal Strathmore Paperr LTKHome LTKOver40 LTKFindsUnder50