Fun with Frottage: Draw a Textured Portrait with Bridget Clutten

Bring texture to life with a playful, tactile technique.

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."

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.

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.

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.

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.

Looseness Leads to Likeness: Paint a Watercolor Portrait with David Tenorio

Looseness isn’t just a style choice—it’s a strategy.

Erase the Dark: Create a Dramatic Graphite Portrait with Sena Adjovi

Let the shadows do the storytelling.

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?

Figure It Out: Capture Gesture and Flow with Derek McClure

Bring life and energy to your drawings.

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.

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.

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Smudge Happens: Draw a Graphite Portrait with Juan Perednik

Let go of rigid formulas and explore a looser, more intuitive process, using a blending stump to sculpt a face from soft, atmospheric tones.

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Beet the Blank Page with 'Ink Naturally' Artist Dylan Sara

Create natural ink in just a few minutes with one ingredient, and draw a portrait with artist Dylan Sara.

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Draw an Elegant Graphite Portrait with Tess-Marie White

Practice the fundamentals of graphite portraiture with a classical drawing and painting instructor.

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The Eyes Have It: Paint a Luminous Watercolor Portrait with Dritan Duro

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

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Bold Strokes, Quiet Focus: Draw a Ballpoint Portrait with Alvin Chong

Tattoo artist Alvin Chong invites you to embrace the patience and precision that pen drawing requires.

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Draw With and Without Pressure with France Van Stone

Draw a pencil portrait with crosshatching virtuoso France Van Stone.

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Crosshatch a Colorful Marker Portrait with Charlotte Hamilton

Draw a marker portrait with striking colors and confident crosshatching.

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Paint a Hopeful New Year Portrait with Lorraine Simonds

It’s a new year, and with it comes a sense of renewal and possibility that artist Lorraine Simonds explores beautifully in this lesson.

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Looking for Likeness? Draw an Eye-Opening Pencil Portrait with Medical Illustrator Tiffany S. DaVanzo

Medical illustrator Tiffany S. DaVanzo uses her deep knowledge of human anatomy to create beautiful, expressive portraits, and this is exactly what you will learn in this eye-opening lesson.

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Be Unafraid of the Dark with Joan Martin

"Don't be afraid of the dark," Joan Martin tells her drawing students. Meant as literal encouragement, the saying also describes Joan's fearless approach to art making.

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Paint an Autumnal Watercolor Portrait with Imola Dalma

Imola Dalma was an "overly precise" artist – until she embraced watercolor.

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Incomplete a Drawing with David Tenorio

"When you do a drawing that is too laborious, you don't give your audience anything to participate in. You told them the entire story. Instead, give them something to finish."