{"id":2739,"date":"2025-07-15T13:55:16","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T18:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.art-rageous.net\/Art-Rageous3\/?p=2739"},"modified":"2025-07-16T14:32:44","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T19:32:44","slug":"drawing-charcoal-portraits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.art-rageous.net\/Art-Rageous3\/drawing-charcoal-portraits\/","title":{"rendered":"Drawing – Charcoal Portraits"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Students in my Art 2 – Honors Art classes completed some amazing (and often award-winning) charcoal portraits over the years. They used a grid to transfer information from the photograph they were working from to their paper, starting with a light sketch in pencil. Some students opted to draw celebrities, and some chose to do self-portraits. Creating drawings in this challenging medium that featured strong, dramatic contrast was an objective for all students. Here are a few examples of their work.<\/p>\n\n\n

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