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Draw a Heroic Portrait in Graphite with Margriet Aasman

Meet the challenge of a heroically upturned face with patience and pencil.

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Draw an 'Un-Ruler-y' Portrait with Mike Creighton

What happens when you draw a face without measuring a single thing?

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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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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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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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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.