Portraits

Welcome to the page that I have created for our course 'Creative Drawing & Painting: Portraits', where you will find the resources and activities of our course. Enjoy!!! 

CLASS 1: Initial exercise (11/01/18)

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CLASS 2: The Basics of Sketching Portraits I (18/01/18)

Four ways of beginning a realistic portrait: Click on the image below to open the video on Youtube.



Using a grid:



Examples of imaginative portraits:


Josh Bryan





Kris Trappeniers




Scribbling with a ballpoint pen

CLASS 3: The Basics of Sketching Portraits (25/01/18)

Drawing the eyes, mouth, nose, ear and head (Click here to open)

Other examples of imaginative portraits:


Antonio Mora




















Redmer Hoekstra



Redmer Hoekstra




Christianne Spansberg




Christianne Spansberg




Christianne Spansberg

CLASS 4: Drawing the Human Figure (01/02/18)

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Exercise: Expressionistic Figure Drawing


Oswaldo Guayasamín (Waiting)

CLASS 5: An introduction to colour (08/02/18)

Click on the image below to read the information on the theory of colour:



Value scales:



Exercise: Painting hands


Egon Schiele

CLASSES 6, 7, & 8: Most influential portrait artists

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Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele:



THANK YOU!

Thanks for all of your hard work, creativity and passion during these 8 weeks! It has been very rewarding to see your progress and share new ideas and inspiration with all of you. I hope this course was useful and encouraged you to continue developing your talent. Thanks for everything and I hope to see you again very soon!

                                                                                                                     Alberto Pitalua