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caricaturedoc.bsky.social
#Artmodel Monday!
Sophia
Indigo pencil and white chalk on blue paper
30 minutes 12/2025

#figuredrawing #artshare #nude #artisticnude #art #drawing #pencildrawing #lifedrawing #artwork #figurativeart #nudeart #nudemodel #portrait #nudeportrait
December 29, 2025 at 2:38 PM
mdstamper.bsky.social
“Portrait of a Female Artist with a Portfolio (perhaps a Self-Portrait)” by Anne Guéret (French) - Black chalk & wash with white gouache on buff paper / 1793 - Baltimore Museum of Art (Maryland) #WomenInArt #art #AnneGueret #AnneGuéret #Gueret #BaltimoreMuseumOfArt #WomenArtists #WomenPaintingWomen
Also exhibited as "Portrait d’une artiste appuyée sur un portefeuille" (Salon of 1793) and sometimes considered a self portrait, this work depicts a young adult woman with light skin sitting against a softly shaded, neutral background. Her curly brown hair is gathered with a ribboned band, and she wears a high-waisted white dress that catches the light in crisp, almost satin-like highlights, with a warm-toned shawl draped over her shoulders and across her lap. Her posture is poised, but mid-action as one forearm rests along the back of a chair, while her other hand holds a drawing implement ... ready to work. To her right, a large portfolio (or drawing board) props open, and a sheet shows a sketched figure study, lightly outlined and unfinished. She turns her face up and to our left, eyes focused beyond the frame, as if pausing to observe a model, listen, or consider the next mark. The artist’s technique of dark chalk modeling with pale, and opaque touches makes fabric gleam, edges breathe, and the sitter’s expression feel alert, thoughtful, and quietly self-possessed. Made for public viewing at the Salon of 1793, this image is a deliberate claim not as muse or amateur, but as working artist. The portfolio and visible study sheet function like proof of practice while her upward glance suggests attention and intellect. If the drawing is a self-portrait, Guéret is staging authorship at a moment when women’s access to training, networks, and professional recognition was hard-won and constantly negotiated. Even the materials participate in that argument with the economy of chalk and ink, then the confident whitening that “finishes” the light, mirrors how she brings authority into view. Guéret, active in late 18th-century Paris and exhibiting alongside her sister, uses portraiture to insist that creative labor belongs to women, too. The result is tender and strategic that feels intimate, yet designed to publicly declare ambition, competence, and presence.
December 23, 2025 at 5:13 PM
alfgeosan.bsky.social
#artAdventCalendar day 13 & #PortraitChallenge... after „Barine“ by Edward Poynter (1894) - red chalk... #kleineKunstklasse #artshare #art #drawing #sketch
Portrait einer jungen Frau im Profil. Sie hat halb geschlossenene Augen. Auf ihrer Hochsteckfrisur ist ein Rosenkranz.
December 13, 2025 at 7:03 AM
gutenberg.org
Belle da Costa, the woman who concealed her origins in 1905 and ended up running New York’s most legendary library

by Use Lahoz

english.elpais.com/culture/2025...

#books #librarians #publiclibrary
Belle da Costa Greene black and white chalk on paper 67.5 x 53.4 cm signed b.l.: Helleu 1913 An elegant 1913 portrait drawing by Paul Helleu of Belle da Costa Greene, pioneering librarian and art collector for J.P. Morgan. Executed in black and white chalk on toned paper (67.5 x 53.4 cm), the profile view captures Greene wearing an elaborate feathered hat and fur-trimmed coat, exemplifying Belle Époque fashion and sophistication. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belle_da_Costa_Greene#/media/File:Belle_da_Costa_Greene,_by_Paul_Helleu.jpg
December 10, 2025 at 10:29 AM
drannaclark.bsky.social
“And if thou wilt, remember,
And if thou wilt, forget.”
Christina Rossetti, English poet, born #OTD 1830.
Portrait drawing by her brother Dante Gabriel Rossetti, coloured chalk on blue-grey paper, dated September 1866, & signed with artist’s monogram.
Andrew Lloyd-Webber Collection
December 5, 2025 at 6:08 AM
philipmarks87.bsky.social
A couple years later...
Large charcoal drawing of a male lion's face Charcoal self portrait of me a bearded bald white dude. I don't look happy Charcoal drawing of Toshiro Mifune (I think it's from the movie poster of Red Beard, the Kurosawa film) White chalk drawing on black paper of a woman sitting in a chair in the middle of nowhere with black cats coming up to here and perched around her. She is holding a staff with a black crystal emanating darkness. There is also a full moon and some clouds in the sky
November 29, 2025 at 4:28 PM
caricaturedoc.bsky.social
Topless Tuesday!
Kelsey Dylan, reclined
Colored pencil and white chalk 2018

#figuredrawing #artshare #nude #artisticnude #art #drawing #pencildrawing #lifedrawing #artwork #figurativeart #nudeart #nudemodel #portrait #artmodel #toplesstuesday
November 25, 2025 at 4:00 PM
markculham.bsky.social
Charcoal & chalk self-portrait by Frank Auerbach. He has worked and worked and worked the surface. I want to touch it and check, but I think he has ripped through the paper and added layers behind, so hard has he been drawing, then crossing & rubbing out. There are these black lines which I'm assuming are the edges of torn paper but I want to check, they are like water marks too. When he finally finished he left his head staring out at us with his left eye, his right eye blurred, his chest facing away to our left, his head turned towards us, and as I said his left eye staring at us, or rather himself.
November 11, 2025 at 10:33 AM
portinari.bsky.social
Retrato de Vicente Leite
Portrait of Vicente Leite
1926

@: Coleção Particular / Private Collection
Desenho / Drawing
carvão, giz / chalk, charcoal
56cm x 34cm

#: Homem, Retrato
#: man, portrait
Composição em preto e branco. Linhas de contorno e sombreados. Retrato de meio-busto de homem, contra fundo liso. O homem está de frente, 3/4 voltado para a esquerda, tem cabelos escuros, cheios, penteados para trás, com entradas marcadas, testa larga, sobrancelha grossa reta, olhos amendoados, voltados para a esquerda, nariz comprido, lábios grossos bem delineados e orelha esquerda definida. Usa casaco de gola alta em "V" e camisa clara de colarinho. Fundo liso. Composition in black and white. Contour lines and shading. Portrait of man half-bust, against plain background. Man is facing, 3/4 facing left, has dark hair, full, combed back, marked entrances, wide forehead, straight thick eyebrows, almond-shaped eyes, turned to the left, long nose and thick lips outlined and set the on the left ear. It wears high-necked coat "V" and clear collar shirt. Plain background.
December 4, 2023 at 9:08 PM
killustration.bsky.social
I'll start the Art Share! With some more Portrait examples of course!😀

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#ArtShare #Art #Illustration #Raffle #Portraits
#271 June 1st 2024 Life Drawing Man 1hr 20 min Program: Clip Studio Paint Brush: Wes Gardner's Painter 1 Full Version (NSFW) Art Studies at: https://www.artstation.com/kerrithjohnson or: www.tumblr.com/kerrithjohnson 🐰 🖼️🎨 #296 June 26th 2024 Life Drawing Woman 1hr 30min Program: Clip Studio Paint  Brush: Wes Gardner's Painter 1 Full Version (NSFW) Art Studies at:  https://www.artstation.com/kerrithjohnson www.tumblr.com/kerrithjohnson https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:gcrglxnpxfszlcnod2hgs4lh/feed/aaac6kxai6fv6 🐰 🖼️🎨 #300 June 30th 2024 Life Drawing Man 1hr 10 min Program: Clip Studio Paint Brush: Wes Gardner's Painter 1 Full Version (NSFW) Art Studies at:  https://www.artstation.com/kerrithjohnson www.tumblr.com/kerrithjohnson https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:gcrglxnpxfszlcnod2hgs4lh/feed/aaac6kxai6fv6 🐰 🖼️🎨 Fri Oct 13th 2023 Life Drawing Woman Program: Clip Studio Paint Brush: MB Chalk Full Version (NSFW) Art Studies at: www.tumblr.com/kerrithjohnson 🐰 🖼️🎨
July 4, 2024 at 2:14 AM
feliciasart.bsky.social
#chalk #charcoal #portrait #dragon My #art #drawing
December 31, 2025 at 2:31 AM
brett-baudin.bsky.social
#aiart #promptshare
Title: "Chalk and Mirror"
Style: Hyper-realistic photography with a touch of Renaissance portraiture, inspired by Caravaggio’s use of light and shadow.
Prompt in ALT
Description: A woman is drawing a lifelike portrait of a passerby on a busy city sidewalk. The chalk art is so realistic that it looks like a photograph, and the subject is standing next to it, amazed. The lighting is natural but focused, highlighting the details of both the art and the real person. Style: Hyper-realistic photography with a touch of Renaissance portraiture, inspired by Caravaggio’s use of light and shadow.
February 2, 2025 at 10:00 PM
philipmarks87.bsky.social
Finishing up another pet portrait for our friend @bblloooodd.club. 😊🖤 Hit me up if you would like one for your furry or feathered (or maybe scaled?) loved ones
White chalk drawing of a very floofy very pretty kitty looking up and to the side on black paper
May 5, 2024 at 5:45 PM
nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social
Dorothea Meyer - Hans Holbein the Younger c. 1525–26
chalk drawing
delicately done portrait of a woman. Her clothes, which cover almost all of her, are sketched, but her face from mouth to brow is shaded and colored.
July 19, 2024 at 2:31 AM
pietromm.bsky.social
😄 Lots of fun with a pencil sketch of
@heybillierae.bsky.social .Made with love. Thank you! #artist #drawing #dibujo #esboço #arte #artistic #art #myart #sketch #artwork #retrato #traditionalart #chalk #illustration #pencils #inking #portrait #portfolioday #charcoal
😄 Lots of fun with a pencil sketch of @heybillierae.bsky.social .Made with love. Thank you!
January 21, 2025 at 1:15 AM
murdoctopus.bsky.social
Here's part of what I do. Drawing a portrait in red chalk and brown with some white highlights!
March 13, 2025 at 1:01 PM
artraction.bsky.social
Attributed to Francisco de Zurbarán (1598-1664)
"Head of a Monk", ca. 1635-1655,
Black chalk, grey wash with traces of pen and ink
#drawing #art #painting #illustration #portrait #monk #FranciscodeZurbarán #Zurbarán #baroque
May 17, 2025 at 7:39 AM
feliciasart.bsky.social
My #art #drawing #dragon #portrait #woman #face #pencil #ink #chalk #design
December 5, 2025 at 11:08 AM
jthewolfmanm.bsky.social
baby went to school
he worked on his self portrait
practice makes progress

#haiku #kingbaby #kb2k24 #school
A small plastic baby next to a piece of orange chalk in front of a crude drawing of a small plastic baby on a chalkboard.
February 20, 2024 at 11:36 PM
creativevillages.bsky.social
I'm back to terraforming, so have some more of my artwork while you wait for an update!

Portrait of my dear friend Cindy
Marker, Color Pencil, Chalk Pastel and Ink on toned tan paper, 2019

#traditionalart #drawing #portrait #mixedmedia
January 13, 2025 at 9:55 PM
lizhoageart.bsky.social
This is my first real try using soft (chalk) pastel pencils. I've also never been very good at human portraits. I thought I should try to improve on that. This is my grandfather with a bird on his head.

#art #drawing #pastel #portrait #traditionalart
An unfinished soft pastel drawing of an older man with glasses. There is a bird on his head.
August 13, 2025 at 10:16 PM
onechalkarmy.bsky.social
We went over to make a rainbowy portrait of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. like we made two years ago, but my template didn't work. I couldn't see the dots (it didn't help that we got over there after the sun was down) to help me know where the lines went, so I had to give up on...

At Oak Park
Photo of a sidewalk chalk drawing. The drawing says, "Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. -Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr."
January 17, 2025 at 1:46 AM
mixedmediadude.bsky.social
Quick Sketchbook Pages
conte crayon and chalk on paper #portrait #chalk #contecrayon #drawing
February 19, 2025 at 5:59 PM
mclean.bsky.social
“Barbie Chapman (left) uses sidewalk chalk on April 23, 2025 to draw her mother Cherise Irving, who was taking a rest on one of the wooden benches left behind by car-free advocates.”

blockclubchicago.org/2025/04/25/l...
A woman drawing on the street with chalk. It’s a portrait of her mother who is sitting on a bench across from her
April 25, 2025 at 3:03 PM
philipmarks87.bsky.social
I finished another pet portrait this evening of the pretty kitty, Aaron 🥹🖤 Hit me up for a commission 🙏
White chalk drawing of a grey cat on black paper. He has a very stern look on his face 🖤
March 8, 2024 at 3:58 AM