Grumbacher® Vine & Willow Charcoal

Grumbacher® Vine and Willow Charcoal offers artists a traditional natural charcoal experience with smooth application, rich tonal values, and exceptional blendability. Crafted from hand-selected vines and natural willow rods burned at high temperatures, these charcoal sticks provide expressive mark-making for everything from preliminary sketches to finished fine art drawings.

Available in a range of softness levels and diameters, Grumbacher charcoal allows artists to create delicate light tones, broad atmospheric shading, or deep dramatic blacks with excellent control.

Vine charcoal delivers smooth, velvety marks with easy erasability, while willow charcoal offers lightweight expressive strokes ideal for gesture drawing and underdrawings.

Perfect for figure drawing, tonal studies, sketching, and expressive charcoal techniques.

Available Styles & Grades

Extra Soft Vine Charcoal (V40)

• Rich, dark black tone
• Extremely soft and expressive
• Excellent for deep shadows and bold shading

Soft Vine Charcoal (V41)

• Velvety texture with slightly softer blacks
• Great for tonal transitions and sketching

Medium Vine Charcoal (V42)

• Smooth dark gray tone
• Balanced control and blendability
• Excellent all-purpose charcoal

Hard Vine Charcoal (V43)

• Sharpenable for finer detail work
• Controlled lighter marks and line work

Jumbo Medium Vine Charcoal (V9)

• Extra-large charcoal stick for broad expressive coverage
• Ideal for large-format work and gesture drawing

Thin Willow Charcoal

• Lightweight natural willow rods
• Excellent for preliminary sketches and underdrawings

Thick Willow Charcoal

• Larger diameter for bold expressive marks and broad shading

Features

• Natural vine and willow charcoal
• Smooth, blendable application
• Excellent tonal range from soft grays to rich blacks
• Easy to erase and manipulate
• Suitable for expressive and subtractive drawing techniques
• Available in multiple hardness levels and sizes
• Made in the USA

Ideal For

• Figure drawing and gesture work
• Preliminary sketches and underdrawings
• Tonal studies and shading
• Fine art charcoal drawing
• Large expressive artwork