Digital Portrait Drawing for Beginners and Advanced Students

You get an introduction for the second section.

You learn the general human head proportions.

You learn the proportional differences between male and female faces.

You will understand why construction matters and how it can help you to improve your drawing. Furthermore, you get an overview for the next section.

You will learn how to draw boxes correctly and with that you train your basic drawing skills.

Practise drawing boxes / cubes with what you have learned in the lecture beforehand.

You will learn how to draw cylinders correctly and with that you train your basic drawing skills.

Practise drawing cylinders with what you have learned in the lecture beforehand.

You will learn how to draw spheres correctly and with that you train your basic drawing skills.

Practise drawing spheres with what you have learned in the lecture beforehand.

You learn the construction method for drawing your portraits from every perspective and from imagination.

Practise drawing Loomis heads with what you have learned in the lecture beforehand and draw your first heads.

You receive an introduction about the facial features.

You learn the anatomy as well as the construction of the eye and how you can draw it.

Practise drawing the eye.

You learn the anatomy as well as the construction of the nose and how you can draw it.

Practise drawing the nose.

You learn the anatomy as well as the construction of the mouth and how you can draw it.

Practise drawing the mouth.

You learn the anatomy as well as the construction of the ear and how you can draw it.

Practise drawing the ear.

You learn the shape language as well as the construction of the hair and how you can draw it.

Practise drawing hair.

You learn the basic principles of skin and how you can draw it.

Practise drawing skin.

Practise drawing the complete construction with all facial features.

You learn about the advantages of practising drawing self portraits and you get a brief overview of this section.

You set the idea for your portrait project and receive tips how to generate ideas for the future.

You learn why you need to use references as an artist, where / how you can find them and how you can create a moodboard for your project.

You learn further digital editing tricks and how to create the line drawing for your portrait project.

You learn why grey values are important, how you can use them to create your digital portraits in an easier way and how light influences colors and shapes. Finally, you will understand how you can create the grey values for your own portrait project.

Now you will reap what you sow by using layer blend modes to easily introduce color into your black and white portrait.

I will show you the treasure chest of Photoshop's editing tools and you will learn a lot of tricks like the mixer brush, blend modes and texture editing in order to finish off your portrait project.

You receive a brief introduction into this section.

Learn to draw older people.

Learn to draw babies.

Learn to draw small children.

Learn to draw school children.

Learn to draw teenagers.

You learn to draw different ethnicities like Asian and African types. With this knowledge you can bring more diversity and authenticity into your portraits.

You learn about the seven different main emotions and how to draw them in order to give your portraits more vividness.

Practise drawing the different age groups, ethnicities and emotions in one exercise.

You get an introduction and learn, how you get to your personal drawing style.

You learn how to draw portraits in comic style.

You learn a special creative technique to easily draw cartoony portraits.

You learn how to combine digital with traditional drawing techniques to create a mixed media portrait.

You learn about the master discipline of painting: direct painting.

You get an introduction into the section.

Improve your portrait drawing skills by doing portrait studies.

Improve your portrait drawing skills by extending your basic construction to an advanced version.

Improve your portrait drawing skills by studying the skull.

Improve your portrait drawing skills by studying the facial muscles.

Improve your portrait drawing skills by creating overdrawings.

Improve your portrait drawing skills by studying your favorite artists.

With creating this final portrait project, you will achieve many things at the same time.

You receive a summary of the learnings from this course and you will create a before and after picture to validate your progress.

You receive further tips and resources to improve yourself on your further journey as a digital portrait artist.