Learn each one at your own pace and then put them all together at the end to complete a portrait. Step by Step Instruction: Receive step by step instruction on drawing each facial feature. In this course, you’ll learn how to give hair volume in your drawings. Hair: Most people approach hair the wrong way. You’ll also learn “shadow mapping” to design the light and dark patterns of the shadows. Lips: Give your portraits luscious lips by starting with 5 squishy little pillows and then rendering the 3-dimensional forms using tone.Įars: Learn how to manage the complexity of the ear with the “Y?” method. This will help you to shade the forms and make the nose pop from the page. Nose: Learn to draw the nose by deconstructing it into major and minor planes. Being able to draw realistic eyes brings your portraits to life. This allows you to draw the head in any angle from your imagination or from life.Įyes: Learn the anatomy and how to draw realistic eyes step by step. Loomis Method: Learn how to use the Loomis Method for constructing the 3d forms of the head. Mini-lessons in the course are the same as the free versions, not extended. You’ll also get pics of 3D models that you can use to practice and study from. Includes 2 full length, real-time demonstrations of how to take a portrait from start to finish. The information is presented in an entertaining way to keep you engaged and willing to re-watch the lessons. Then study the anatomy of eyes, nose, lips, and ears.

Like simplifying detail, exaggerating form or distorting selected elements.īut the hardest part about all this? Remembering that for the next piece.Stan Prokopenko shows an effective approach to drawing the portrait from any angle. Art is most interesting when the artist does try to tell you what is important. A photograph will tell you exactly how it is, but not what is important. You need to remove as many elements as possible in order to see what’s truly wrong. There’s just too much conflicting information.

But they aren’t very good for learning, because anything could be wrong: proportions, gesture, shading, perspective, simplification, anatomy, color - or something else! That’s like listening to 5 pieces of music simultaneously. You need to be able to compare your drawing to something, or you won’t be able to recognize where it can improve.

Yet because most artists think “practice makes perfect” they complete one drawing and move to the next. Learning happens by recognizing you made a mistake, and aiming to correct it on your next attempt. These are the main lessons I learned from this 2 years process:

Proko portrait drawing