When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Patrick J Jones Figure drawing is a fundamental skill for artists, but one of the hardest ...

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 ...

John Singer Sargent, “Daisy Fellowes,” c. 1920, charcoal on paper. Private collection, Columbus, Georgia. Photo by Jim Cawthorne. The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery will present a ...

When John Singer Sargent gave up his lucrative oil portraiture at the height of his career to focus on his murals, he still needed a way to keep the lights on. So, he continued his portraiture using ...