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Give Your Creativity a Curl with Mixed-Media Artist Christa Forrest
Learn how to embrace hair as the true expressive focal point of a portrait.
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Learn how to embrace hair as the true expressive focal point of a portrait.
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Learn essential spatial measurements that will help you capture believable, proportional likenesses.
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Practice a fast, fluid, and beautifully imperfect practice to free your hand and sharpen your eye.
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Draw a super-expressive, slightly creepy, and utterly captivating screaming portrait using just two colored pens.
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"Our drawings don't look contrasted enough because we are afraid to apply pressure. We need to let go of that fear."
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Embrace the thrill of direct ink drawing using a brush pen.
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Dive into a vibrant, sun-soaked watercolor adventure with artist Lauren Arno.
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Don't let perfectionism keep you from the "valiant pursuit" of expressing your creativity.
Get ready to dive into the architecture of the profile.
Learn how a portrait can emerge almost by accident through a focus on organic shapes and values.
Don't toss that dried-up ballpoint pen into the bin just yet.
Your drawing should be in a "constant state of flux," says Darren.
Learn how to simplify a portrait into its most basic shapes and values to create a "chiaroscuro" image in under 30 minutes.
Join illustrator Tiffany S. DaVanzo for a session that embraces the beauty of the unfinished.
Discover the simplicity behind the complexity of the human face.
Embrace a playful, painterly approach to portraiture with a Swedish video-game artist.
Balance the interplay between loose, expressive energy and the grounding precision of measurement.
Learn to trust your eye and embrace the "magic" that happens when a collection of brushstrokes suddenly transforms into a human face.
Create an expressive ink-and-watercolor portrait with one pen and just two paint colors.