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Beginners Guide to Portrait Drawing

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Overview

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Art is a strong force that allows everyone to evolve themselves to learn about life in a deeper sense.

In this class we will learn about how to get better in portrait drawing. The most important aspect of this class is to provide each and every information about proportional values and tonal values which is required in realistic portrait drawing. 

The three important parts are:

1. Familiarization with pencils and other tools

2. Holding the pencil properly

3. Better understanding of Feature of face 

The course is dedicated to all the beginners who think that they cannot draw.

In this class, you will learn about different types of pencils, different types of shading techniques. Then we will discuss about drawing and shading of feature of face like eyes, nose, lips, ears and hair as well.

We will also talk about different methods of drawing of human head and how to get outlines using various methods. We will also learn about how to draw face from different angles.

Most importantly we will learn about how to take measurements using pencils. This is very unique method to draw any face perfectly and accurately.

Watch my other classes on skillshare:

Soft pastel class- https://skl.sh/3kEfCGF
Charcoal class- https://skl.sh/3chqzeS
Drawing like an artist- https://skl.sh/2MWGcQP

Syllabus

  • Introduction of class
  • Episode 1 Intro : different tools required in this class
  • Episode 1 : different types of pencils
  • Episode 1: Other tools
  • Episode 2 Intro : Different shading techniques
  • Episode 2 : Different Shading techniques
  • Episode 3 Intro : Generic head anatomy
  • Episode 3 : How to draw generic head/face
  • Episode 3 : Various head angle drawing
  • Episode 4 Intro : Eyes, nose, Lips, hair
  • Episode 4 : How to draw Eyes
  • Episode 4 : Eyes continues
  • Episode 5: How to draw Nose
  • Episode 5 : Nose from different angles
  • Episode 6 : how to draw lips
  • Episode 6 : more lips angles
  • Episode 7: How to draw ears
  • Episode 7 : Ears different angles
  • Episode 8 Intro: How to draw hair
  • Episode 8 : How to draw different Hairstyles
  • Episode 9 : Outline drawing using Pencil measurement techniques
  • Episode 9 : How to do Pencil measurements
  • Episode 10 : how to draw outline of face using pencil measurement
  • Episode 10 : continues
  • Episode 11 : How to do shading on face
  • Episode 12 : How to finish a portrait

Taught by

Artist Ankit Jasmatiya

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