Course Information
Registration period
Year-round Recruitment
Course Level
Study Mode
Duration
4 Hour(s) 55 Minute(s)
Language
English
Taught by
Matthew Fussell
Rating
Course Overview
Lessons and Exercises for Drawing Accurate Portraits
"Portrait Drawing The Smart Way" is a complete video course on drawing portraits designed for beginner and intermediate artists. The goal of this course is to provide the learner with a rich learning experience through "easy to digest" modules consisting of video demonstrations and accompanying ebooks. Designed for beginner and intermediate artists, this course lays the foundation required for success with portrait drawing.
Let's face it. Portrait drawing can be intimidating to some. You sit down to draw a representational drawing of a person and something goes horribly wrong along the way. You're not sure what happened, but you know that the drawing you just created just doesn't quite look like the person. Fortunately, this doesn't have to be case. With a bit of knowledge, practice, and few "secrets" used by the pros, accurate and realistic portrait drawings can be created by anyone - including you!
It doesn't require talent to create amazing, lifelike portraits. It only requires knowledge and practice. This course gives you the knowledge required to create accurate portraits by exploring the "ins and outs" of each feature, the underlying structure of the face, how light effects the form of the face, strategies for locating facial proportions, and techniques used by artists and illustrators to ensure accuracy every time.
This course has been designed to accelerate learning by teaching to many different learning styles. Not all of us prefer to learn from watching videos. Some of us prefer to learn from books as well as videos. Each course module includes an illustrated ebook that corresponds with the video. Every step and concept is clearly illustrated and described in each downloadable ebook. The ebooks are a fantastic compliment to the comprehensive videos.
Course Content
- 5 section(s)
- 21 lecture(s)
- Section 1 Start Here
- Section 2 The Structure of the Head
- Section 3 The Features of the Face
- Section 4 Drawing Techniques for Accuracy
- Section 5 Conclusion
What You’ll Learn
- Draw portraits with accuracy that actually look like the subject., Draw facial features from a variety of angles using a methodical approach that can be applied to any subject., Use a combination of graphite and charcoal to develop realistic skin textures and convincing facial features., Draw realistic eyes, noses, mouths, ears, and hair., Apply multiple strategies used by professional artists to draw portraits with accuracy., Apply knowledge of basic facial proportions to create drawings of any portrait subject they wish.
Skills covered in this course
Reviews
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NNicki Dolce
The instructor is great. He explains light and dark areas and shading as well as detailed explanations of drawing the eye, for example. He is quite detailed and through his explanations, I could understand his concepts in his teaching. He is such an expert teacher and a very accomplished artist. I learned quite a bit about portraiture from him.
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JJoanna Paul
I am enjoying this course; I am taking my time to listen to the guidance and then to draw. I am happy with what I can produce following the tutorials.
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LLaura Roberts
I lost my mom last September, I took this course with the hopes that I could draw her portrait. I learned so much that I think I'm ready to give her a try. Thanks
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TToby Mandelman
An excellent course. I was extremely satisfied with the drawings I was able to create. This instructor does not hold your hand entirely through a drawing.. he shows you the basics, gives you all the tools you need and then you need to be able to apply them to the drawing as you progress. It does force you to really look at the drawing as you try to copy it. (and improve your observation skills) He does; however, lead you through enough of the technique, step-by-step so you can apply it. You will enjoy it if you like the look of graphite and white charcoal drawings!
