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Drawing Faces: How to draw a portrait

Do you want to improve your face drawing skills, or just want to impress your parents and friends? Then you have come to the right place. This class discusses how to draw any face, but not in the method that leaves you with the very specific skill of drawing Beyonce with a 6B graphite pencil. We are talking ANY FACE! (That includes Beyonce if you like.) The class includes: breaking the face down into basic shapes, arranging the shapes to make faces from you imagination, learning basic facial anatomy, refining the shapes to look more specific to the person you are drawing, and finally being able to draw whatever face you want in whatever style you prefer.
Length 10 lessons - 2 h
Price 1 month free trial
Subject Fine Art
Languages English
Video Transcripts English

About the video

-Students will create a final portrait of a person of their choice, whether it is themselves, their best friend, their parent, or their favorite movie/tv character.

-This class is geared towards people who want to draw portraits/faces. Portraits can be utilized in illustrations, posters, fine art, animations, gifts for family and friends, or just for fun!

Deliverables

  • page of Basic Face Shapes
  • page of Eyes
  • page of Noses
  • page of Mouths
  • page of Ears
  • page of imaginary faces
  • final portrait

Meet the instructors

Joshua Johnson is a freelance illustrator residing in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He draws traditionally with pen and ink and then digitize and manipulate with Photoshop and a drawing tablet to add color, alter composition, and finalize his pieces.

Video syllabus

Introduction
Lesson 1 Basic Face Shapes
Lesson 2 Anatomy of the Eyes
Lesson 3 Anatomy of the Nose
Lesson 4 Anatomy of the Mouth
Lesson 5 Anatomy of the Ears
Lesson 6 Refining the Basic Face Shapes
Lesson 7 Drawing from a Photo Reference
Lesson 8 The Complete Portrait (Part 1)
Lesson 8 The Complete Portrait (Part 2)