🔥 A black fuel 🕴️ Very dark grey ✏️ A black sketch ⬛ A dark grey ✏️ To sketch 🍞 To burn black

to charcoal

6.5

To draw with black sticks made from burned wood

verb
/ˈtʃɑrˌkoʊl/

: dibujar al carboncillo

In art class, we learned how to charcoal portraits that captured the expressions of our classmates.

Examples

I picked up a large sketchpad from my bookshelf and began to charcoal something I had seen only in a movie: the Empire State Building.

Fiction book (1994)
The artist decided to charcoal the landscape after being inspired by the vibrant colors of the sunset.
To charcoal a black beard on my own robber's face.

Blog text (5)
And then we would go in with a charcoal pencil or like a soft lead regular pencil or a colored pencil and draw the rest of the figure.
She found joy in charcoal sketches, using the medium to create detailed representations of her favorite scenes.

Synonyms

to pencil

vsto charcoal

13 1.0

To write or draw with a thin wooden tool that has a graphite tip

focuses on depicting or representing images rather than writing words

Antonyms

to erase

144 1.6

Remove marks, writing, or digital files so they are no longer visible

Compounds

activated charcoal

Specialized

1 4.1

A black material made from carbon with many tiny holes that soaks up poisons and impurities

charcoal gray

1 3.1

A very dark gray like the color of charcoal

charcoal burner

4.5

A small stove that burns charcoal for heat or cooking

charcoal burner

Archaic

7.7

A person who makes fuel for fires by burning wood slowly

charcoal pile

Archaic

7.4

A heap of wood covered with earth that people slowly burn to make fuel

charcoal-gray

3.2

Very dark gray like the color of burned wood

animal charcoal

Specialized

7.5

A black material made by burning animal bones used to color things and clean liquids

Surface Forms

charcoal infinitive

charcoaled past

charcoaled past participle

charcoaling present participle

charcoals third person singular

Etymology

Charcoal comes from the name of the burned wood, from char ('to burn') + coal ('coal'). So to 'charcoal' something in art means 'to draw with charcoal', using those black sticks.