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Fun with Frottage: Draw a Textured Portrait with Bridget Clutten
Bring texture to life with a playful, tactile technique.
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Bring texture to life with a playful, tactile technique.
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With a focus on classical proportion and expressive restraint, Tania shows how to use subtle shifts in light to create a portrait with "beautiful drama."
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Learn how to build radiant skin tones and dynamic hair texture one patient, luminous layer at a time.
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This lesson is all about structure and contrast—about seeing light, midtone, and shadow as distinct shapes to be mapped, hatched, and carved into the page.
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Spring is in the air, and this lesson is your invitation to let that energy burst onto the page.
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A tricky upward angle, subtle expression, and delicate lighting—elements that can easily throw off proportions or muddle a likeness. That’s exactly why it’s worth doing.
David Tenorio
Looseness isn’t just a style choice—it’s a strategy.
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Let the shadows do the storytelling.
There's something about a face in 3/4 view, a mystery that makes you wonder. What's caught his eye? What's she pondering?
Bring life and energy to your drawings.
Learn how to blend warm and cool tones to create depth, light, and a natural sense of skin texture with colored pencils.
Watercolor has a way of surprising you—especially when you let go of control and allow the paint to flow.
Let go of rigid formulas and explore a looser, more intuitive process, using a blending stump to sculpt a face from soft, atmospheric tones.
Create natural ink in just a few minutes with one ingredient, and draw a portrait with artist Dylan Sara.
Practice the fundamentals of graphite portraiture with a classical drawing and painting instructor.
Watercolor rewards patience, intuition, and a willingness to let go—a balance that London-based artist Dritan Duro has spent years refining. In this lesson, Dritan invites you to slow down and enjoy the process of painting the most expressive features of the face: the eyes, nose, and mouth. “If you
Tattoo artist Alvin Chong invites you to embrace the patience and precision that pen drawing requires.
Draw a pencil portrait with crosshatching virtuoso France Van Stone.
Draw a marker portrait with striking colors and confident crosshatching.