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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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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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Figure It Out: Capture Gesture and Flow with Derek McClure

Bring life and energy to your drawings.

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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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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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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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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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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.