Here is an excellent tutorial on starting a painting with focus on drawing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHauIQT3LTo
*the artist is Robert Liberace (extremely well known portrait and figure painter)
Here is a site I refer to alot:
http://blogs.academyart.edu/fa-resources/core-videos/drawing.html
**Every student needs to bookmark this site and peruse the information....one of the most important resources I have listed: http://www.freshdesigner.com/
Academy of art University demo page:
http://blogs.academyart.edu/fa-resources/core-videos/drawing/foreshortening-figure.html
http://www.artistdaily.com/
For African American visual art:
http://www.studiomuseum.org/
http://www.ganttcenter.org/web/
http://blackartinamerica.com/
For a cool printmaking project you can do at home go to:
http://www.teachertube.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=187838