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The Beauty of Portrait Drawing - The Front View.
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The Beauty of Portrait Drawing - The Front View.

From Italy with Love
Created byMarco Barucco
Last updated 5/2020
English

What you'll learn

  • Skull anatomy.
  • The muscles of the head.
  • A tridimensional, simplified outline, that can be used anytime to draw the human head with ease.
  • How to tilt the head up and down to give more variety to your portrait.
  • To understand the planes of the head, in order to shade your drawing with confidence.
  • The four basic light gradation.
  • How to recognize light/shadow patterns.
  • How to draw hairs without having to draw them one by one.
  • How to draw a frontal view portrait from beginning to the end, following a step by step method.

Course content

2 sections20 lectures6h 17m total length
  • Introduction2:05
  • Skull anatomy20:50
  • Muscles of the head25:41
  • Tridimensional structure of the head25:33
  • Female head10:58
  • Seeing the bones through the face9:19
  • The Spooky Skull Exercise19:33
  • Tilting the head24:28
  • How the form influences the sadow17:35
  • Shadow patterns25:31
  • Catching the energy8:07
  • Precision check15:25

Requirements

  • A basic knowledge of drawing and shading is preferred.

Description

To draw a really good portrait, just copying what you see is not enough. You need to understand what you see. If you want to draw professionally, you have to know how a human head is made and how to render it on the paper sheet. In this course you will learn the anatomy, the forms and the method to draw a front view portrait that inspire awe in your observers. During this course you will learn knowledge that you need and you will apply it, as you draw your first front view portrait with me. You will follow the creation of a portrait explained step by step.

Who this course is for:

  • Anyone who wants to learn how to draw a portrait.