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Graphite Guidance: Draw a Focused Pencil Portrait with Artist Sean Buckingham
Learn how to set the focal point of your drawing and guide your viewer's eye there.
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Learn how to set the focal point of your drawing and guide your viewer's eye there.
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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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