This course is intended for purchase by adults over the age of 18.

Welcome to the Introduction to Portrait Drawing with Pencil course! In this course you will learn how to draw human facial features, first separately and then when they all come together in a portrait! I will start from scratch and teach you all the ups and downs and the ways you can improve your portrait drawing skills.

So, I start by introducing all the materials that you can use and the best ways to use them. At this point, you will learn about different pencils, where and how to use them to achieve the results you are looking for. Also, other tools accompanying your pencil set such as erasers will be introduced and their usages will be discussed.

Then, through using axis lines as your guide to draw, I will teach you how to draw eyes from different angles. After that, I will focus on eye shading and hatching, a process in which you will learn how to draw and shade human eyes first separately and then together. This in-depth eye drawing section is accompanied by an old man’s eye drawing and shading so that you understand how to create different skin textures.

I will then move to the nose and teach you how to observe, draw, hatch and shade different types of human noses from different angles. Then moving on to how to draw and shade human lips and create expressions.

Importantly, you will learn how to combine all the facial features you have practised drawing and shading separately to draw a human portrait, step by step. In this way, you start from preliminary drawing and build up your portrait as you gradually add more layers and details on them.

For the finale, you will learn how to draw from the old masters samples and try out drawing and shading different human portraits, male and female from different angles.

By joining this course, you will get instant access to step by step video tutorials carefully designed to help you enhance your drawing easily. Each lesson in this course is accompanied with FREE additional resources such as outlines, grids and assignments to help you practice what you have learned.

In the chapters you will learn:

• A thorough introduction to tools and materials and how to use them

• A detailed introduction on human facial features, in different forms and from different angles

• How to combine what you have already learned in this course, and use different methods such as the axis and free hand method to draw.

• A complete guide to draw male and female portraits from the old masters and learn from following their footsteps.