Class Description
Master the art of portrait drawing with this elegant and detailed graphite lesson. In “Draw a Realistic Portrait of a Lady in Graphite,” you’ll learn how to capture delicate facial features, expressive hands, and flowing dark hair with precision and confidence.
Designed for intermediate artists looking to refine their portrait skills, this step-by-step class breaks down complex techniques into simple, manageable steps. You’ll complete a stunning portrait that radiates softness, depth, and realism.
🎨 What You’ll Learn in This Class:
🌫️ Drawing a Soft Background – Quickly create a subtle background that enhances the subject without distracting from it.
🖤 Rendering Dark, Straight Hair – Learn how to layer graphite to create realistic, flowing dark hair with natural highlights.
✨ Drawing Fair Skin – Discover smooth shading techniques to capture the softness and subtle tonal shifts of light skin.
✋ Drawing Expressive Hands – Get clear instruction on shading and texture for natural looking hands with depth.
🎯 And Much More! – From achieving lifelike eyes to refining facial contours, this class is filled with valuable tips for elevating your portraiture.
🖋️ What’s Included:
📽️ Real-Time Video Lessons – Fully narrated demonstrations showing every technique and pencil stroke.
📥 Downloadable Reference Pack – Includes the photo reference and outline sketch to guide your drawing.
📆 On-Demand Access – Learn at your own pace with unlimited access to revisit any part of the lesson.
👩 Create Portraits Full of Presence and Emotion:
By the end of this class, you’ll have created a sensitive and beautifully rendered portrait—and built skills that will boost your confidence in all your future figure and portrait work.
Join now and start drawing elegant, expressive portraits in graphite—one pencil stroke at a time!
You Will Need
- A4 / Letter Drawing Paper or Sketchbook
- Set of Pencils (2H, HB, B, 2B, 4B, 6B, 8B)
- Mechanical pencil with B lead
- Graphite Dust (I also show you how to make it)
- Kneadable Eraser
- Soft Eraser
- Tombow Mono Eraser
- Soft Lint Free Cloth
- Small Bristle Brush
- 0.8 Gelly Roll Pen
- Eye shadow sponge
- Cotton Ear Bud (Q-tip)
- Make yourself a Blending Stump according to THESE instructions)