Portrait Drawing: a Beginner’s Guide to Drawing Faces

Unlock your portrait drawing potential with this comprehensive, beginner-friendly guide to drawing faces! Learn a step-by-step technique to bring your character illustrations to life, mastering essential skills like shading, highlighting, and portrait painting.

This course focuses on achieving accurate proportions and correctly placing facial features – even when depicting faces in various views. Discover how to select beautiful skin tones and color palettes for realistic and expressive portraits.

You'll learn in detail how to draw the nose, eyes, mouth, and hair, building a solid foundation for creating compelling character art. While demonstrated using the popular Procreate app on iPad, these techniques are adaptable! Follow along with pencil and paper or any other digital drawing software, including Photoshop and Clip Studio Paint.

Whether you want to draw from imagination or create a likeness of someone you know, this class provides the tools and knowledge you need to paint beautiful portraits. We'll explore a version of the classic Loomis Method and utilize the Asaro head for simplified construction.

Hi, I’m Brooke Glaser, a professional illustrator and experienced teacher! I've empowered over 200,000 students to improve their illustration skills and advance their art careers. This class distills everything I wish I’d learned when starting to draw people, presented in clear, engaging lessons.

You'll also receive helpful resources and worksheets, along with practical tips to accelerate your progress. Perfect for beginners with no prior experience, this class is designed to help you create both realistic and stylized illustrations. The methods are flexible, allowing you to adapt them to your own unique artistic style.

Ready to level up your portraits? Let's begin your journey to mastering face drawing today!