Teaching portrait drawing

Sketching the human face needs a little practice, because there is a lot that can go wrong. These super easy exercises will help you get it right.

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By Vladimir London in Art Tutorials > Drawing Tips When drawing from life, I often see art students do their best to depict the eyes, nose and mouth as they see them on a model. . . forgetting, however, to first draw the overall construction of the head. This is like decorating walls before ever building the house—and just like building a house, “building” the head in a portrait drawing requires some crucial knowledge of proportions and measurements. So today I’m going […]

Ms. S- Art Lessons on Instagram: "Today in class we began these fractured self portraits. I love this project for my foundations level classes because they get a lot of opportunity to practice drawing the facial features from different angles and I think it’s way less intimidating than trying to draw a full portrait because you don’t have to worry so much about mapping out proportions on the head. I think it’s a nice way to ease into a self portrait, which already is intimidating for many…

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People always say to me, "Oh I'm no good at drawing. I can barely even draw a stick figure." Well, just so you know, people are the hardest things to draw and if all you are trying to do is get the idea of a person across to communicate, a stick figure does it for our left brains. That's what I use in the game of pictionary just like everybody else. People are hard to draw because we all know what they SHOULD look like. We see people every day...in the mirror or standing in front of us. Our…

Capturing a likeness when teaching portrait drawing is one of the most challenging things to teach in the art classroom.

Cartoon Self Portraits: When you combine the styles of well-known cartoons with personal characteristics you can create dynamic and creative cartoon self-portraits. In this lessons you will… - Examine a variety of cartooning styles including famous cartoons - I…

Learn how to start a realistic portrait drawing in Part 1 of this step by step portrait drawing tutorial.