The Art of the Portrait Drawing For Beginners

The Art of the Portrait – Drawing For Beginners, available at $139.99, has an average rating of 4.61, with 52 lectures, based on 2198 reviews, and has 28919 subscribers.

You will learn about Portraiture – Discover my 7-step system for compelling portraits in graphite and charcoal Face Drawing Step by Step – Create your own portrait masterpiece How To Draw Portraits – How to make your portraits more believable Master the fundamentals such as: how to see like an artist, construct solid forms, features, anatomy and more The simple secret to keep your viewers coming back again and agian Drawing from imagination This course is ideal for individuals who are Beginner, intermediate and advanced students from age 12+ It is particularly useful for Beginner, intermediate and advanced students from age 12+.

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Summary

Title: The Art of the Portrait – Drawing For Beginners

Price: $139.99

Average Rating: 4.61

Number of Lectures: 52

Number of Published Lectures: 48

Number of Curriculum Items: 53

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 49

Original Price: $109.99

Quality Status: approved

Status: Live

What You Will Learn

Portraiture – Discover my 7-step system for compelling portraits in graphite and charcoal

Face Drawing Step by Step – Create your own portrait masterpiece

How To Draw Portraits – How to make your portraits more believable

Master the fundamentals such as: how to see like an artist, construct solid forms, features, anatomy and more

The simple secret to keep your viewers coming back again and agian

Drawing from imagination

Who Should Attend

Beginner, intermediate and advanced students from age 12+

Target Audiences

Beginner, intermediate and advanced students from age 12+

Discover my simple 7-step portrait drawing system for drawing the human face

You have a passion for drawing the human face and using it to tell your stories, express your visions and draw portraits. This is who you are. It’s your calling and it’s deep, and I am here to guide you on your way to reaching your goals.

Discover my simple 7-step portrait drawing system for drawing the human face. In this course I am going to help you draw the face really believably in the style you choose and apply it to your career or personal visions. You will be able to do it quickly with purpose in a way that is clear and carries meaning to your viewers. At the end of this course you will have an awesome portrait for your portfolio that you can feel proud of and attract attention.

WHAT YOU GET

11 hours of On Demand video lesson content

2 portrait drawing demonstrations from start to finish

20 Downloadable resources to help you practice

Bonus lectures on anatomy, planes and tons of portrait tips from my years of professional experience

Full lifetime access

Access on mobile and TV

Assignments

10 articles

Certificate of CompletionArt direction secrets to make your portraits stand out

and MUCH more

WHAT STUDENTS ARE SAYING ABOUT THE COURSE:

The first thing to say is that unlike some ‘art instructors’ Mr. Petrocchi is clearly an accomplished artist. He’s not simply some guy who’s always liked to draw, got a microphone for Christmas and thought it’d be cool to make a course. I regard myself as an exceptionally unexceptional draftsman but can already sense some improvement in the way I’m tackling portraits.The value I’ve already received leaves me with absolutely no complaints. You’ll be getting A LOT of information from a guy who knows what he’s doing with this course. And the demos – from blank sheet of paper to finished, fully rendered drawing – are both highly informative and inspirational. I’m not sure you can ask for more than that from any instructor. It’s a keeper. Many Thanks, Mr P for putting this together.

–Sam Pollard

Of all the elements of drawing, portraiture is one of the most difficult to master. Practice alone is not enough to create portraits that come alive. That is the core value of this course. It provides a strong foundation for the individual to begin to master the creation of portraits of substance. This is not a course for the lazy. It requires patience and practice. But it will provide a roadmap that will allow the student to create fulfilling and satisfying portraits.

–Stuart Givot

An Excellent Course. I was Impressed by Chris’s Level of Knowledge, Experience and Expertise. This course has differently give me knowledge that will help me improve my work and help me integrate into work with Charcoal.

–Aisha Smith

I was blown away of how great of a teacher Mr. Petrocchi is. He provided some incredible insights into helping me improve my facial drawing skills. It’s amazing of how easy and simple he teaches technique. I feel inspired and highly recommend his courses. I can’t wait to learn more from him!!!

–Tuese Ahkiong

Here is a clear, deep and well made course. Chris’s sense of art teaching is excellent, it’s like hanging out in his studio, looking over his shoulder (literally sometimes) and learning from following a professional. He talks out loud what goes on in his thoughts as he mindfully works his image. Seeing him work really helps me. His own career is used as an example, and I love all the personal stories that talk about his journey in the art world and specifically in this field of drawing portraits. The course is full of gold nuggets of info, stories, metaphors that help me put words and structure in my work. (I love the “Valley of the Suck”concept–so true! ) This course really helped me to clarify my work in regards to values. Also, it helps to come back to those foundations of the underlying structure of the face. I would recommend this course to anyone who wants to build a strong foundation and seriously wants to get into portrait art. As it is in my case, I would recommend it as well to any professional that wants to come back and touch those foundations again, one tends to forget stuff! Thank you Chris, and I agree “the figure is a song”!

–Philippe Ames

If you are ready to improve and go higher than you ever thought you could with your portraits then this course is for you!

See you inside,

Chris Petrocchi | Draw Juice studio

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Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Course Introduction – Portraiture

Lecture 1: Welcome!

Lecture 2: DO THIS SECOND: Your Master Portrait drawing instructions

Lecture 3: Art Community Invitation

Lecture 4: Bootcamp Study Plan

Lecture 5: The Tools part 1

Lecture 6: The Tools part 2

Lecture 7: The learning process

Lecture 8: Materials list

Chapter 2: Draw Believable Human Faces – See and Construct

Lecture 1: See like an artist 1

Lecture 2: See like an Artist 2: the Main Problem

Lecture 3: See like an artist 3: lighting

Lecture 4: See like an artist 4: the Bad Xerox

Lecture 5: Easy Way To Draw The Planes of the Head (For Beginners)

Lecture 6: Head drawing demo 1: Shape Based Block In

Lecture 7: Planes_Rhythms_practice 1

Lecture 8: Planes_Rhythms_practice 2

Lecture 9: Planes_Rhythms_3_Light and Shadow

Lecture 10: The key to solid portraits | Rhythms

Lecture 11: The key to solid portraits | Rhythms + Planes

Chapter 3: Action and Form of the head

Lecture 1: Drawing the head fAST: 2 simple RULES, 1 simple SHAPE

Lecture 2: Drawing the head fAST: 2 simple RULES, 1 simple SHAPE pt.2

Lecture 3: Head front planes intermediate and advanced demo

Lecture 4: Written steps (1-22) for planar block in of the head from the front

Lecture 5: Head 3/4 view 1

Lecture 6: Head three quarter view 2

Lecture 7: Head drawing demo 2: three quarter view

Lecture 8: Value: learn it, love it, make art

Lecture 9: 5 Value System: Draw A 5 Value Scale

Lecture 10: Apply 5 Value Scale: Turn Flat Shapes Into 3D Forms

Lecture 11: Head drawing demo 3: Use 5 Values To Draw A Head

Lecture 12: Charcoal Demo 2 Draw with Confidence part 1

Lecture 13: Charcoal Demo 2 Draw with Confidence part 2

Lecture 14: The power of Edges

Lecture 15: Finding Edges on the human face

Chapter 4: The Features of the face

Lecture 1: The eyes 1: anatomy

Lecture 2: The eyes 2: Photoshop demo

Lecture 3: The eyes 3: charcoal demo

Lecture 4: The mouth 1

Lecture 5: The mouth 2

Lecture 6: The nose anatomy

Lecture 7: The nose front view charcoal demo

Lecture 8: The nose 3/4 view charcoal demo

Lecture 9: The Ears digital drawing and painting Photoshop demo

Chapter 5: Find your Objective and sculpt with Lighting

Lecture 1: Head drawing demo 4 toned paper 1.5 hours

Lecture 2: Objective_1:_Find Your Why + Art Direction Secrets

Lecture 3: Objective_2: Art Direction Secrets (contd)

Lecture 4: Cinematic Portrait Lighting

Lecture 5: Objective 4: Setting goals

Instructors

Chris Petrocchi
Artist, teacher, mentor

Rating Distribution

1 stars: 34 votes

2 stars: 44 votes

3 stars: 241 votes

4 stars: 587 votes

5 stars: 1292 votes

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