From early cave painters to Pablo Picasso to Roberto Longo, artists have long loved the expressive potential of a soft charcoal pencil or crayon. Each sweep of charcoal offers intense black color and ...

Starting your figure drawing with basic shapes makes it easier to draw more sophisticated lines on top. Here, I've drawn the face using small shapes inside a big shape. This is two of my disciplines ...

CHARCOAL DRAWING ON PAPER, Charcoal and conte crayon drawing on paper ...

Just years before the Twin Towers were hit, Norwegian-born artist, Torild Stray, created a charcoal drawing depicting the panoramic view of the Manhattan skyline as seen from the 85th floor window of ...

What's your guess? Is that a photograph? The face is so close and specific. Did the photographer hold the camera in one hand, and an umbrella in the other? Maybe want to hold the umbrella over the ...

Can you produce attractive charcoal portraits of people in a very short time frame? If not, you may want to take some courses so you can, as people portraits created from charcoal drawings is one of ...