Portraiture: Beyond a Likeness

This course, taught by a professional portrait artist, will help you develop the skills required to create portrait drawings and paintings you can be proud of! We look at traditional and modern methods and techniques, and make these accessible to anyone, even those who haven’t picked up a pencil in years! We cover a range topics including: ● Basic portrait drawing skills – if you are new to the course, you will learn specific methods to create a likeness. We’ll look at drawing facial features, simplifying the face, the use of proportion, and using the block in to get it right every time. ● Professional portrait methods and techniques – starting by looking at general techniques, and once you get more experience, we look more in depth at specfic artists, considering how they use certain techniques to achieve their goals. ●Understanding how the Russian Academic Artists use a more 3D structural approach to drawing, to add more form to their drawings. (Returning learners only) ● Personalised development – once you’ve achieved the basics, you can then personalise your learning to develop skills more suited to your own needs. This can include practicing skills from specific artists, or developing the use of specific techniques.