Realistic Portrait Drawing - Beginner Friendly

Hello friends, in this course I tried to show how to draw realistic black and white portraits without missing any details by blending different materials.

In this course, even beginners will achieve great results in a short time. Sketching methods, face, skin shade scanning and ordering will be explained in detail.

What we really learn here is to know black and white exactly. Those who do not know how to look and see perceive black and white as colors, but you will learn how all the tones of black create effects when mixed with white.

Let's say that we will not dirty the white here, we will give it character. We will try to discover all the gray tones between white and black with tiny micron black mixtures like decorating the white.

After discovering these, we will start experimenting on portraits. The first part of our course will be drawing realistic portraits on white papers.

The difference of our course from the normal black and white looking charcoal pencil or other techniques is that we will use different materials together to make the drawing as realistic as possible, for example we will use gray, black, white, chalk on the skin, sometimes we will get pictures without spreading without using a napkin, we will learn how to use the texture of the paper, we will learn how to adjust the distance of the pictures to be drawn. For example, if we are working on a beard in a portrait, we will learn how to adjust the thickness of the beard strand, the size of the paper, the size of the picture.

We will also talk about how black and white hyperralist works are made around the world. Because you need to know. Of course, you will learn different new things from them in our course.

Artworks that are a mixture of black and white are like an unknown secret, unlike colored visuals, the effect they leave on people is very beautiful. I think because it is a completely natural image. In other words, we can say that everything in nature is actually black and white, but it looks colored due to reflections and lights. Maybe it deeply affects us because black and white is the most natural form of all visuals. In fact, when I share my own works, especially on social media, black and white posts always stand out more, they are liked more, so we can say that this is the underlying reason. Although it is not obvious, black and white has a very spiritual superiority.

As I said in the first part of this course, we will work on white papers. In the second part, we will use different colored papers; we will work on papers such as gray, kraft brown paper, black paper, etc. or yellow paper.

In the second part, we will try to reveal the intensity of the visual, especially on colored papers.

According to the experience I have gained in other courses at the end of this course, there will be very, very good artists among you. Maybe it will pioneer brand new techniques, I see it will develop in the future. I know many friends among you who have this desire and determination.

I say do not think of drawing only as a material thing or as a return. As I say in all my courses, drawing is actually a very important source that relaxes our soul. Because there are so few things in nature that will relax our soul, one of them is painting. Your soul actually relaxes while you draw without realizing it. This is a very nice plus compared to other people. I think it is a great chance for you to have noticed this and be here.

You will notice these in your future lives anyway. As you produce beautiful works and receive positive feedback, you will understand exactly what I mean years later.

I will also create a set for the material issue. You will be able to buy it from my website as a set.

I will start my course by designing it for beginners again. We will go into detail starting from drafting, scanning, materials used, shadows and lights.

I chose very nice reference images, we will work on one homework assignment every week in the homework section, those who finish their homework early can choose a similar image and work on it, but work on a maximum of 2 because our aim is to produce realistic and very vivid works, not rushed works, professional works.

I wish you all success, we will see each other a lot in the course, I also follow my students on Instagram if they write to me, we will be in constant communication.

Mehmet Emin Doğan