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Paint Hard and Soft with Liz Chaderton
If you struggle to loosen up artistically, Liz Chaderton will get you into the flow. A UK-based painter who has published five books on watercolor, Liz helps her students break through their self-serious tendencies and rediscover the joy of painting. In this lesson (57 mins), Liz shares her process of
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Draw Bold and Loose in Brush Pen with Patrick Hochstenbach
In our previous lesson, we learned how to create intricate, realistic graphite portraits. Now we're headed in a radically different direction in pursuance of the same goals: artistic growth and improved drawing skills. In this lesson (39 mins), illustrator and comic artist Patrick Hochstenbach teaches us how to
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Sketchbook Tour: Brush Pen Inspiration with Patrick Hochstenbach
"When drawing," says Patrick Hochstenbach, "story is everything." Patrick is an illustrator and comic artist from Brugge, Belgium. He loves to work with brush and ink and draws influence from many Franco-Belgian artists such as Hergé, Franquin, Tardi and Giraud. In this tour, Patrick shares four
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Draw a Realistic Pencil Portrait Really Quickly with Kate Higgins
Kate Higgins often creates intricate, realistic graphite portraits that take many hours to complete. For example: But in this lesson... Kate shows how to create a striking, precise portrait in a much shorter period of time (76 mins). Her lesson covers everything from head construction to... ...blending and rendering hairďż˝
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Sketchbook Tour: Get Real with Kate Higgins
Artist Kate Higgins creates captivating, lifelike portraits with just a pencil and piece of paper. In this tour, Kate shares six stunning portrait drawings and discusses her artistic thinking and process for each. Kate's full-length pencil-portrait tutorial comes out this Friday, August 9. Subscribe now to get full
Claudio Saes
Draw a Dramatic Charcoal Portrait with Claudio Saes
Meet new teacher Claudio Saes! Claudio is a South American, self-taught artist in Dallas, Texas, who has held exhibitions in the US, Mexico, and Brazil. In this lesson (80 mins), Claudio demonstrates his process of drawing a dramatic charcoal portrait from start to finish. Claudio guides us from the very
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Gear Up for Charcoal Drawing with Claudio Saes
If you've been wanting to get into charcoal drawing but daunted by the learning curve, artist Claudio Saes is here to help. In this video, Claudio shares his favorite charcoal pencils, erasers, and highlighting tools. He also demonstrates his technique for sharpening a charcoal pencil with a razor
Richard Banks
Mix Ink and Watercolor with Richard Banks
In his previous lesson, designer and self-taught artist Richard Banks demonstrated his bold process of drawing a portrait in ink. View that lesson here. Ink an Imperfect Portrait with Richard Banks“You really need to go into inking ready to embrace error,” says Richard Banks, a designer and self-taught artist
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Mike Creighton Gives a Sketchbook Tour of Contours
Recently Mike Creighton taught paying subscribers how to "sculpt" their drawing subjects using a technique called contour hatching, which he describes as "almost like stretching a mesh around the form you're drawing." In this sketchbook tour, Mike shows how he uses this one technique
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Ink an Imperfect Portrait with Richard Banks
"You really need to go into inking ready to embrace error," says Richard Banks, a designer and self-taught artist in London. "In portraiture, we’re not after perfection - we’re after impression.” In this lesson (69 mins), Richard demonstrates his bold style of direct inking and
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Sketchbook Tour: Exchange Words with Margriet Aasman
Artist Margriet Aasman's inspiring sketchbook tour gives new meaning to the phrase "mark my words". During the tour, Margriet shares one of her strategies for staying motivated to draw regularly: adding a word or phrase to the page. "The word doesn't have to