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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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Create 'Beautiful Drama' in Charcoal and Pastel with Tania Potapenko
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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Paint Expressive Textures in Watercolor with Christa Forrest
Learn how to build radiant skin tones and dynamic hair texture one patient, luminous layer at a time.
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The Art of Tone: Get Graphic in Graphite with Karl Staub
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 Forward: Draw a Matisse-Inspired Portrait with Kirsten Britt
Spring is in the air, and this lesson is your invitation to let that energy burst onto the page.
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Grace in Graphite: Capture a Serene Expression with Justin Maas
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.
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Looseness Leads to Likeness: Paint a Watercolor Portrait with David Tenorio
Looseness isn’t just a style choice—it’s a strategy.
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Erase the Dark: Create a Dramatic Graphite Portrait with Sena Adjovi
Let the shadows do the storytelling.
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Your Turn: Capture a 3/4 View with Graphite Artist Margo Wallace
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?
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Figure It Out: Capture Gesture and Flow with Derek McClure
Bring life and energy to your drawings.
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Draw a Cool and Warm Colored Pencil Portrait with Kate Higgins
Learn how to blend warm and cool tones to create depth, light, and a natural sense of skin texture with colored pencils.
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Harness the Chaos: Paint a Striking Three-Color Watercolor Portrait with Liz Chaderton
Watercolor has a way of surprising you—especially when you let go of control and allow the paint to flow.