Drawing a Portrait

Welcome to this pencil portrait drawing demonstration! In this course, you’ll learn how to start a portrait drawing, correct it, and add detail and shading.

If you’ve ever come across major drawing errors late in your drawing, or wondered how to correct them or whether you should start again, this course is for you.

More than halfway through the portrait, I realized that I hadn’t achieved a likeness, and had to make some major corrections. It’s a fantastic learning experience – learn from my mistakes, and also learn how to correct a drawing when you realize it’s inaccurate.

This course discusses simple portraiture anatomy, measuring, working from large to small, how to add shading, and more.

Lesson Overviews

Introduction

Welcome to the portrait drawing course! You’ll learn how to set up a portrait, add shading, and make major corrections.

Part 1: Setting Up the Drawing

Use loose, general shapes to set up the portrait. Keep the detail for later and focus on the bone structure and large measurements.

Part 2: Refining the Shapes

Make the shapes and facial features more accurate by measuring distances, using a plumb line, and observing carefully.

Part 3: Beginning the Shading

Now that the shapes are in the right place (or so I thought), it’s time to build form and volume by adding shading.

Part 4: Correcting the Drawing

In this video lesson, you’ll see the portrait change and become more accurate through some major reworking. An excellent learning experience if you’ve ever become stuck with a drawing and aren’t sure how to progress.

Part 5: Building More Detail

The portrait shading and detail becomes further developed following the corrections from last lesson.

Part 6: More Revisions and Finishing the Portrait

In this last lesson, the portrait undergoes a few more revisions, plus further shading in order to develop the structure and form. Thank you for coming on this journey with me!

What you'll learn

How to achieve a likeness with a portrait
How to add pencil shading to make the portrait look realistic
How to correct a drawing, rather than restarting
Using bone structure and large shapes to begin a portrait
Practical use of portrait landmarks and anatomy to draw a likeness

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