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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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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.
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Get a Likeness by Drawing Slowly but Surely with Arto Isotalo
Arto Isotalo is a self-taught artist from Finland who explores many different media in his portraiture with pencil getting pride of place in his heart. "I enjoy the particular versatility of drawing in pencil," he says. "It can be used for everything from loose sketches to very
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Map Shadows and Direct the Eye with Mike Creighton
Mike Creighton is a multidisciplinary artist living and working in Portland, Oregon, who explores a vast array of media in his art. Thousands of students have taken his classes to improve their skills in drawing, painting, and more. In this lesson (83 mins), Mike will teach you how to use
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Improve Blending and Build Value with Zac Rybacki
"I was the kid who wanted to draw on the placemats at restaurants and never really stopped," says Chicago-based artist Zac Rybacki, who eventually got his BFA from the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design. "I’m drawn to the simplicity of graphite pencil drawing," he
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Draw a Realistic Graphite Portrait with Justin Maas
Justin Maas is a Canadian portrait artist who has been working professionally for more than 20 years. He is best known for his “famous faces” series of portraits on Instagram, where he posts daily drawings of your favorite celebrities for his 400,000+ followers. Maas’ pencil portraits have been reposted