Thank you Richard... I'm happy to finally be here... I was one of Cynthia's first artists -- having joined A Stroke of Genius in 1996...I have her to thank for helping me overcome my computer anxieties so I could finally join the forum. I hope you will visit my website
www.portraitartist.com/thomas
There's no need to envy my skills, I'll be happy to teach them to you! I take a painterly approach to charcoal (even using brushes to move the material around) and have designed a new workshop "The Art of Portrait Drawing" in response to my years of teaching, and based on my book and DVD by the same name. The workshop is about drawing for painters...(because I've taught lots of painting workshops, and have concluded that drawing is the real problem confronting most portraitists, including me!)
It is a wonderful class-- designed for, and in conjunction with, my advanced students.