This site breaks down the art of drawing into six subcategories, each encompassing a different drawing medium. Mediums include chalk, charcoal, crayon, ink, metalpoint, and pencil. Each subcategory has many visual examples.

This unknown chalk pastel artist creates unbelievable 3-dimensional images on the sidewalks of the city.

Here at ArtShow, artist Betsy M. Kellum explains her pastel technique with this still life drawing. Both oil paints and pastels are used. Kellum explains the drawing/painting process from the blueprint of the artwork to the finishing...

An image of "The Artist Drawing in the Farnese Gardens", created by Hubert Robertz (Red chalk, 340 x 455 mm).

An image of "Alessandro de' Medici in Profile", created by Jacopo Pontormo, c. 1534 (Stylus, black chalk, traces of another red chalk drawing, 165 x 126 mm).

An image of "St Apollonia", created by Albrecht Durer in 1521 (Chalk drawing on green primed paper, 414 x 288 mm).

An image of "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe", created by Friedrich Bury in 1800 (Chalk drawing, 955 x 534 mm).

An image of "Head of a Girl", created by Diego Rodriguez De Silva Y Velazquez, c. 1618 (Chalk drawing, 150 x 117 mm).

An image of "Portrait of an Unknown Man", created by Jean Clouetz (Chalk drawing).

An image of "Madame de Lautrec", created by Jean Clouetz (Chalk drawing).

An image of "Man with a Petrarch", created by Jean Clouetz (Chalk drawing).

An image of "Portrait of a Man", created by Daniel Dumonstierz (Chalk drawing on paper).

An image of "Allegory: Sculpture Working on the King's Bust", created by Charles Le Brunz (Chalk drawing, 106 x 116 cm).

An image of "The Meeting of St Anne and Joachim at the Golden Gate", created by Bartolomeo Schedoniz (Oil over a preparatory red chalk drawing on paper, 369 x 277 mm).

Dictionary entry, illustrated with scenes of his adventures, focuses on the Trojan War exploits of Greek hero Achilles.

An image of "Studies for the Nailing of Christ to the Cross", created by Jacopo Pontormo from 1523-24 (Black chalk, heightened with whiwte, and red chalk, 307 x 190 mm).

An image of "Self-Portrait (recto)", created by Jacopo Pontormo in 1525 (Red chalk, 284 x 202 mm).

An image of "Leonardo di Giovanni Buonafe and Another Carthusian Monk (verso)", created by Jacopo Pontormo in 1525 (Red chalk, 284 x 202 mm).

An image of "Study of a Carthusian Monk (verso)", created by Jacopo Pontormo in 1525 (Red chalk, 293 x 210 mm).

An image of "Cosimo I de' Medici in Profile", created by Jacopo Pontormo in 1537 (Black chalk, 421 x 215 mm).

An image of "Two Male Figures Looking in a Mirror and a Putto", created by Jacopo Pontormo from 1515-20 (Black chalk heightened with white on gray-green prepared paper, 422 x 272 mm).

An image of "Studies of Heads (verso)", created by Jacopo Pontormo from 1519-21 (Black chalk heightened with white, and brown ink, 423 x 270 mm).

An image of "Study of a Man Wearing a Hat", created by Jacopo Pontormo from 1519-21 (Red chalk with incised lines for transfer, 157 x 198 mm).

An image of "Head of a Man Wearing a Hat (verso)", created by Jacopo Pontormo from 1520-21 (Black chalk, 332 x 211 mm).