Sketching Faces 3 Ways - Learn to Sketch Portraits from Reference

Want to learn portrait sketching? In this class, I'll teach you 3 freehand approaches to sketching portraits from reference. We'll draw faces using shapes, angles and block-in/basic structure - and we'll have some fun doing different exercises to help you improve on observing your subject and your eye-hand coordination. All you need is a pencil, an eraser and a sketchbook or some paper, and you're ready to get started!

This is the second class in my series on painting realistic watercolor portraits.

*Other supplies used are optional (watercolor & gouache)

In this class we'll go over;

• The materials/art supplies we'll be using
• We'll touch on basic anatomy - I'll go over basic proportions of the face.
• We'll do a couple of quick sketches to get us started - and you can come back and sketch these again, applying some of the techniques from the class.
• I'll Go through 3 ways you can approach sketching a freehand portrait from reference - to hopefully help you find out what works for you, so you can improve on your portrait sketches!
• And we'll do a portrait study. We'll create a sketch and add some basic shading to help us better understand our subject in preparation for painting a watercolor portrait (in an upcoming class)

So whether you're interested in learning how to create realistic watercolor portraits - or you just want to sketch some faces with me - I hope you'll join me for this class!

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If you haven't watched the first class in this series, you can check it out here:

In the first class I go over the whole process, from creating the sketch, some basic watercolor techniques and how to add shading to features using watercolor as well as show you the basics of painting a realistic watercolor portrait.

You can also check out my new class on sketching animals;

• Intro
• Supplies
• Basic anatomy
• Sketching: Simple studies
• Sketching by blocking in
• Sketching using angles
• Sketching using shapes
• Exercise: Eye-hand coordination
• Portrait study: sketch
• Basic shading
• Portrait study: shading & Class project