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.
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.
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.
Draw an Elegant Graphite Portrait with Tess-Marie White
Practice the fundamentals of graphite portraiture with a classical drawing and painting instructor.
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
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.
Draw With and Without Pressure with France Van Stone
Draw a pencil portrait with crosshatching virtuoso France Van Stone.
Crosshatch a Colorful Marker Portrait with Charlotte Hamilton
Draw a marker portrait with striking colors and confident crosshatching.
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.
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.
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."
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Draw Like a 'Downhill Skier' with Ink Illustrator George Cwirko Godycki
"I think of direct drawing like skiing downhill, and I'm trying to avoid hitting trees, " says artist George Cwirko Godycki.
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Solve a Drawing Puzzle with Zac Rybacki
Learn countless bits of drawing technique and creative wisdom, including a reminder that fixing mistakes takes courage but is always worth it.
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Balance 'Strategy and Spontaneity' with Watercolor Artist Lee Grest
"Watercolor asks much of the artist in its unpredictability. It's much like people in that way."
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Discover the Three Keys to Capturing Likeness with Justin Maas
Learn how to draw realistic pencil portraits from the guy who literally authored the book on the subject.
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Draw a Flitting Charcoal Portrait with Cindy MacDonald
"I love charcoal for its immediacy. You can create such a broad diversity of stroke, expressing directly what you intend to capture onto paper with full emotion."
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Draw the Face in the Fog with Darren Wells
"When drawing a face, I like to think of it as seeing someone emerging from a cloud of fog..."
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Paint an Emotional Monochrome Portrait with Watercolor Artist Rocío González
"In portraiture we want to represent emotion," says watercolor artist Rocío González. In this lesson, she accomplishes that using a single color.
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Draw Patiently, in One Direction, with Zach Atticus
Zach shares his meticulous process of drawing a pen portrait with single-directional crosshatching.
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Crosshatch a ‘Dapper Chap’ with Kirsten Britt
How do you make drawing glasses 50% easier? Draw a monocle!
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Draw a Measured Pencil Portrait with Neil Rogers
Learn a simple, intuitive method of capturing a child's likeness using a grid and measuring tool.