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LifestylePortrait Drawing The Smart Way (Udemy.com)
Lessons and Exercises for Drawing Accurate Portraits
Created by: Matthew Fussell
Last updated September 2017
What you will learn
- Draw portraits with accuracy that actually look like the subject.
- Draw facial features from a variety of angles using a methodical approach that can be applied to any subject.
- Use a combination of graphite and charcoal to develop realistic skin textures and convincing facial features.
- Draw realistic eyes, noses, mouths, ears, and hair.
- Apply multiple strategies used by professional artists to draw portraits with accuracy.
- Apply knowledge of basic facial proportions to create drawings of any portrait subject they wish.
How it compares
Against the other 194 rated Udemy courses in Drawing on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.6 out of 5higher than 51% of them
- Reviews472#96 of 195 by number of reviews
- Length4.9 hourslonger than 51% of them
- Last updatedSeptember 2017earlier than 83% of them
Course Description
Let's face it. Portrait drawing can be intimidating to some. You sit down to draw a representational drawing of a person and something goes horribly wrong along the way. You're not sure what happened, but you know that the drawing you just created just doesn't quite look like the person. Fortunately, this doesn't have to be case. With a bit of knowledge, practice, and few "secrets" used by the pros, accurate and realistic portrait drawings can be created by anyone - including you!
It doesn't require talent to create amazing, lifelike portraits. It only requires knowledge and practice. This course gives you the knowledge required to create accurate portraits by exploring the "ins and outs" of each feature, the underlying structure of the face, how light effects the form of the face, strategies for locating facial proportions, and techniques used by artists and illustrators to ensure accuracy every time.
This course has been designed to accelerate learning by teaching to many different learning styles. Not all of us prefer to learn from watching videos. Some of us prefer to learn from books as well as videos. Each course module includes an illustrated ebook that corresponds with the video. Every step and concept is clearly illustrated and described in each downloadable ebook. The ebooks are a fantastic compliment to the comprehensive videos.
Who this course is for:
Anyone who wants to learn how to draw accurate portraits.
Beginner and Intermediate art students will love the simplicity and clarity in which the lessons are presented.
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Instructor Details
- 4.6 Rating
472 Reviews
Matthew Fussell
Hi, I am an illustrator and educator. As the founder and instructor at TheVirtualInstructor (website), I am able to help thousands of people all over the world realize their dreams of creating quality art. My illustrations have been featured in numerous publications and my work can be found in many private collections. Although I am an illustrator, my true passion in life is teaching. I have been teaching for over ten years and I am lucky to have helped so many people achieve their goals of creating art.
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Reviews
By Lori Thornbrue on 10/26/2020
So far I ha e only done the introduction. I could read on the screen 10 times faster than he read it aloud so it was a bit annoying the SLOW talking...
By Brenda Clark on 10/22/2020
It was fantastic and i enjoyed it so much. Shall be telling my friends about it. He is a brilliant instructor and the notes are very good and detailed
By Toby Mandelman on 9/18/2020
An excellent course. I was extremely satisfied with the drawings I was able to create. This instructor does not hold your hand entirely through a drawing.. he shows you the basics, gives you all the tools you need and then you need to be able to apply them to the drawing as you progress. It does force you to really look at the drawing as you try to copy it. (and improve your observation skills) He does; however, lead you through enough of the technique, step-by-step so you can apply it. You will enjoy it if you like the look of graphite and white charcoal drawings!
By Anna Eschle on 7/12/2020
This course teaches amazing techniques and quite frequently draws you to things that can easily be over-looked, but can make a huge difference on the drawing. A great course indeed!
By Maurice Rreznik on 7/5/2020
Very helpful wit hurtle exception Grid and triangle drawing
By Julie on 7/2/2020
I don't think I'll fully know until I get to the end. But good so far. I enjoyed it.
By Marley :3 on 6/20/2020
???
By Esther Feldman on 6/4/2020
I enjoyed this course and improved along the way. Suggest that the actual photograph be adjacent to the working drawing as an easier method for the learner as observed in a previous course.
Another suggestion would be to emphasize exactly what pencils are needed as one tends to buy 15 to 20 and only use 2 or 3 throughout the course.
By John Dudley on 5/20/2020
yes
By Virlie Bright on 5/12/2020
the southern accent is distracting
By Alan Kroeger on 4/26/2020
I am enjoying it, lots of good points I know of but don't think about as much these days
By Kenneth Cherry on 4/25/2020
Like the first module, the instructor appears to start with us knowing the same amount as he does. Talk about the basics of drawing strokes, and it would probably be better to give proportional connections before hand not bits and pieces along the way. I would have had the same results if I had just drawn it without the instructor, as he didn't provide details and I'm not an expert like he is.
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Overall Score : 92 / 100
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4.9h - Price: $54.99
- Provider: Udemy
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September 2017 - Level:
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