Masterclass of Realistic Drawing and Shading Human Features (Udemy.com)
Realistic Human Feature Drawing, Hachure and Shading with Pencil, Charcoal and Brush Techniques - Beginner to Advanced
Created by: Ian Xiang
Last updated November 2022
What you will learn
- Understand the fundamentals of drawing, hachure (hatching) and shading
- Realistic hachure with charcoal and pencil
- Realistic shading with charcoal and pencil
- Draw human face features and figure
- New techniques and structures to learn portrait drawing with circles and ovals
- Draw perspectives
- Draw hyper realistic with pencil and brush (eyes, nose, lips, eyelashes, eyebrows, ears, hair, hands, feet, legs )
- Draw realistic with blending stump
- How to use brush and charcoal/graphite powder to draw hyper realistic portrait
- Introduction of shadows and different volume
- Photo-realistic blending techniques
- Photo-realistic texture techniques
- Artistic and creative approach to create an artwork
- Learning how to use your techniques and creativity to draw in an artistic way
How it compares
Against the other 194 rated Udemy courses in Drawing on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.4 out of 5higher than 20% of them
- Reviews1,970#33 of 195 by number of reviews
- Length29.2 hourslonger than 97% of them
- Last updatedNovember 2022more recently than 62% of them
Course Description
Welcome to the Masterclass of realistic drawing and shading of human portrait and features. You will learn drawing, hatching and shading skills and techniques for photorealism drawing. This ultimate drawing course will show you how to start drawing and create advanced art in the simplest way that will stand up as professional work.
This course does not need prior knowledge, and it will take you step by step to learn how to draw and make realistic and hyper-realistic paintings at the end.
You will learn general and detailed ways and principles of sketching; we will get to know the tools, materials and techniques of drawing and shading in a new and simple way.
This course gives you access to 30 hrs HD tutorial videos in the simplest way possible for you to learn drawing human features. Even you have never drawn before, as long as you follow through this course, you will be able to draw realistic, eyes, nose, lips, face and other features. You will also learn advanced hachure and shading techniques by using tools such as pencil, brush, stump and powders. You will even use your hand and fingers to create a perfect skin texture to achieve the photo-realistic look.
You will gain instant access to 62 lectures of the course, which starts with basics; how to draw lines until you learn how to draw a hyper-realistic portrait with easy techniques.
· We will start using simple lines, circles and oval shapes to guide you through the proportion, size and position of human features.
· In each chapter you will learn how to draw: Eyes, Nose, Lips, Ears, Eyebrows, Eyelashes, Hair, Full Face, Fingers, Hand, Arm, Legs
· Next you will learn how to Hachure them with pencil
· Then you will use the techniques that you have learned in this course. You will learn how to shade them and create realistic features.
· Then I will guide you how to combine the techniques together and then you are going to learn how to create textures and apply them to your drawings.
· Eyes are one of the most important parts of human feature drawings; since through eyes, you can show the emotions and make your drawing to stand out. The ‘Eye’ Chapter of this course will teach you how to draw eyes in the simplest way possible and we will go through many examples.
· You will also gain access to Demo sections where you can learn and see the combination of different techniques that you have learned step by step.
Over the 15 chapters you will learn:
· You will get familiar with lines and shapes and how to warm up your hand
· You will get familiar with Pencils, Charcoals, Conte, Drawing Brush and Blending Stump
· You will learn how to use the techniques and combine them
· Creating texture
· Shading Surface
· Eyes section: Front View Eyes, Side View Eyes, Eye hachure (Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced), Eyes Shading, Eyes Demos
· Nose section: Nose drawing (All sides), Hachure, Shading
· Lips section: Lips drawing (All sides), Hachure, Shading, Lips Demo
· Ear section: Ear drawing, Hachure, Shading
· Hair section: Hair shading techniques, Female Hair, Male Hair
· Face Section: Face Drawing (Front View, Side View), Hachure and Shading
· Portrait Demo
· Hand section: Palm of Hand, back of Hand, Fingers, Hand Shading
· Arms section: Hachure, Shading
· Legs section: Hachure, Shading
· Feet section: Drawing, Hachure, Shading
· Drawing with Creative Ideas (Cheat sheet, Roundism, Sculpture, Mix Media)
No rulers or any other guiding tools needed, you still will be able to draw perfect features even if it’s your first time of drawing. After drawing the features, I will also show you the advanced hachure and shading techniques to create photorealistic skin tone and other textures that make your drawing to pop out your paper. We don’t want you just copy whatever we showed you in this course, but to implement your own creativity and be an artist. By the end of the course, you will be able to draw what you have learned during the course but also apply the techniques, be creative and draw your own version of human features.
No matter if you are an art lover, art hobbyist, University student who wants to improve their art portfolio, someone who want to learn some new skills of drawing; artist who wants to learn another medium or even you just occasionally want to make a realistic drawing of your loved ones as a gift to surprise them, you are on the right course. As long as you can write down your name, you can draw.
So what are you waiting for, pick up a piece of paper, grab your pencil, enroll the course now, let’s start drawing.
Feel free to have a look our preview lessons, follow one of the lessons to see how easy it is.
Instructor Details
- 4.4 Rating
1,970 Reviews
Ian Xiang
I am a filmmaker and educator working with different people to create online courses.
I have created some of the most successful cultural events such as ‘Magical Lantern Festival’ in the UK market and brought great experience to hundreds of thousands people.
Education has always been my passion. Recently created AX Education with Ava Moradi for producing online educational materials by using video and filming skills and experience to make high quality courses.
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Reviews
By Asli Ozer on 4/1/2025
This course is an incredible learning experience! It was the first course I took from Ava, and it truly helped me improve how I observe and draw facial and body features. From eyes and noses to hands, ears, and hair—each section is clearly explained and supported with practical exercises. Ava’s teaching style is so relaxing, detailed, and motivating. I enjoyed every moment and gained so much confidence in my drawing skills. Highly recommended!
By Vibeke Wågheim on 4/10/2023
The instructor is a genious at shading, but the drawing part does not live up to a master class at all. When drawing hands and feet free hand the proportions are way off. The same goes for face side view. You won't be a master at realistic drawing after this. But again, the shading part of traced images are good. So, I guess it all comes down to what you want from this course.
By Mario Cinquina on 2/12/2022
I found this course to be exceptional. The instructor shows all the different ways on how to use all the drawing equipment. Also, she has the hands of a hand model which helps one to see the distinctive moves one needs to use the hands as a vital tool when working with different drawing mediums such as graphite, conte' powder and other similar or like ingredients. Also, the holding position and moves of various instruments which are set aside to be shown previous to starting each project. This helps if you decide to speed-up the video, "note the change when switching from one drawing instrument to the next and how it is held." It blends in with the music and helps one register this into the right side of brain. These instructions are designed to be reviewed in building ones observational skills in a way that is conducive to the flow-state and is enjoyable. I plan on taking more courses from this instructor. There is nothing to lose and much to be gain. Much Kudos to her performance and abilities.
By Jin Wang on 5/1/2020
This is the best drawing class I have ever had in Udemy. I have purchase quite a few drawing classes in Udemy so far. The instructor in this course really dissect every technique to clear and simple steps which I can apply easily. I have learned so much here. And Ava has provided so much thorough course content and she respond to every question and give feedbacks to students' work. Highly recommend!
By Deanne During on 2/4/2020
I have taken many classes with Udemy, I have to say I this course slowly and still havent finished because I dont want to rush , I have thoroughly enjoyed this course and would recommend it to anyone from beginners to someone who can draw. I never thought I could do the amount of art I have done since taking this course. slowly slowly, as they say you cant rush a good thing. Easy to listen to love the music . I am so happy I took this course and when i do finish I will use it over and over again just incase i forget something. Thank you, I have given others 5 stars yet in all honesty this course has been the one that has taken me places ....thank you so very much. Dee
By Sonia Ghanem on 12/25/2019
yes i needed this course to know more about other methods relating to realistec drawing. Ava Moradi was explaining in detail, what i likde most is the eyes and nose and face drawing section, the ears & hands, arms , feet could have been better. Overall an interesting course , Ava is an expert on shading techniques. Thanks to Ava Moradi and Udemy team.
By Antonino Domenico on 12/11/2019
I really enjoyed the course with regards to shading and rendering, how to use brushes and all the tools. I was a little bit disappointed because when the teacher does the render on the drawings, the basic lines of the drawing have been traced, I wanted to see those lines drawn, because that is a fundamental part for me.
By Hilal ziauddin on 8/6/2019
For someone who doesn't have a background in drawing this course offers everything. Personally I have taken some drawing courses before but even if you haven't this course has everything you need. As a reminder I would suggest that even if you're not good at drawing you can simply trace of the drawings and then shade them. That not only saves time but gives you the confidence that you're moving forward. As someone who draws every day I'm glad to have enrolled in this course. And as a bonus you've a teacher who takes out the time to answer any question that you may have. The only downside is that I wish there was more.
By Penny Heflin on 5/27/2019
I think the instructor is an excellent teacher and a great artist, however I felt some of the lessons could have been cut shorter and explained briefly such as watching eyes for 2 hours or more, I fell asleep, however I am glad I took this class because I did learn some things about painting I did not know before and I would recommend this class especially a beginner
By Charles Trout on 5/18/2019
I LOVED this course! I never imagined that anyone would put so much content into a course but, it's VERY obvious that you love what you do and you love sharing your knowledge. You are absolutely wonderful and I'll be going through this course time and time again... THANK YOU for such a valuable learning experience!
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Overall Score : 88 / 100






