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MASTERCLASS: Digital Portrait Drawing

Learn to draw human faces without previous drawing knowledge to create beautiful works of art for hobby and profession and to put your own ideas on paper.

Master the drawing of portraits in different styles

This is what you will learn and achieve:

  • learn or improve basic drawing techniques (shapes, perspective basics, light, shadow, color, anatomy, proportions, composition...)
  • draw portraits using a template
  • draw portraits completely from imagination
  • draw individual facial features (eyes, nose, mouth, ears, hair, skin)
  • draw realistic portraits
  • draw stylized portraits
  • draw self-portraits
  • draw male and female proportions
  • understand the anatomy of the head and use it for drawing
  • draw authentic emotions
  • learn various digital and mixed media drawing techniques
  • learn several Photoshop & brush tricks
  • find inspiration for your own portrait style
  • learn best practices: numerous exercises to apply your knowledge and improve your drawing skills even after you have finished the course
  • … and much more!


Take your drawing skills to the next level

Whether as a hobby artist, professional illustrator, art student, game artist / concept artist / 2D/3D artist, character designer or graphic designer: drawing skills in the portrait field are in demand everywhere.

In this course you will learn step by step and in detail how to create beautiful portraits from your imagination and in different styles. With this you can deepen your hobby, turn it into a profession or take your existing artistic profession to the next level with better portfolio work.

Content & Overview

Whether you are a beginner or an advanced artist, in this course you will learn everything you need to know about portraiture.

In an introduction, you will learn what the head is made of and how to break down the complex anatomical structures into simple shapes. In individual lessons about facial features and emotions, you will acquire more detailed knowledge in order to be able to draw realistic portraits. Afterwards, I will show you in numerous different examples how to apply the acquired knowledge, construct heads and draw individual portraits of every person from this world – no matter which age, ethnicity, gender or emotion.

After completing the course and all the exercises you will be able to draw your own portraits completely from imagination, in different styles and in every perspective.

You will also have acquired basic drawing techniques to draw other things and to modify your portraits. Whether cartoon-, alien-, or other portraits: you will be able to put everything on digital paper. Although the course is designed for digital work, many of the techniques can be transferred to traditional drawing outside of Photoshop or to other digital drawing programs.

I will provide you with numerous exercise sheets, additional materials, editing tricks in Photoshop and insider tips so that you can improve quickly and never again get into an artist block with portrait drawing.

If you finish the course completely and have worked on it really carefully, you will certainly become a very good (portrait) artist.

This self-learning course includes over 60 lessons and over 4 hours of on demand video material. No feedback included.


Prerequisites

  • material: pencil, eraser & paper, graphics tablet (recommended), digital drawing program (Photoshop, Procreate, Gimp, etc.)
  • basic knowledge of Photoshop are required (like where is the brush / understanding the interface – so very basic ;))


Target Students

  • hobby artists, who want to learn how to draw portraits (with pencil oder digital drawing programs)
  • art/design/illustration-students, who want to learn how to draw or improve their portraits and drawing techniques
  • professional artists (illustrators, graphic designers, concept artists, game artists, etc.) who want to improve their drawing skills even further
  • everyone, who does not want to spend thousands of dollars and hours for art school and who wants to get all the important knowledge and training for portrait drawing in one place


Note: This download does not include assignment feedback


Thank you so much for your support!

If you have any questions or feedback, please let me know via sandra.suesser@web.de


Disclaimer:

You are not allowed to use my videos or my art in any commercial way.

COMPLETE Course
$50
License: Standard License
Stock Assets

For personal use and one commercial project (up to 2,000 sales or 20,000 views).

Tutorials

One copy to be used by a single user.

Installable Tools

One installation by a single user.

Learn More
Master portrait drawing now! You receive the WHOLE course about portrait drawing: + 50 video tutorials = more than 4,5h of content + 40 materials (worksheets, references, summary sheets, exercises, other ressources) Read MoreRead Less
Files (100)
1-1 Introduction – Course Overview
mp4 /
14 MB
1-2 Your Starting Point
mp4 /
9.3 MB
2-1 Lets get started
mp4 /
2.4 MB
2-2 Proportions
mp4 /
13 MB
2-3 Differences Male and Female
mp4 /
15 MB
3-1 Why Construction?
mp4 /
9.2 MB
3-2 Drawing Boxes
mp4 /
14 MB
3-3 Drawing Cylinders
mp4 /
4.4 MB
3-4 Drawing Spheres
mp4 /
4.2 MB
3-5 Andrew Loomis Method
mp4 /
14 MB
3-6 Exercise - Loomis Head Construction
mp4 /
8.7 MB
4-1 Introduction – Facial Features
mp4 /
8.4 MB
4-2 Drawing Eyes
mp4 /
36 MB
4-3 Drawing Noses
mp4 /
23 MB
4-4 Drawing Mouths
mp4 /
36 MB
4-5 Drawing Ears
mp4 /
23 MB
4-6 Drawing Hair
mp4 /
33 MB
4-7 Drawing Skin
mp4 /
39 MB
4-8 Complete Construction
mp4 /
17 MB
5-1 Introduction – Portrait Project
mp4 /
19 MB
5-2 Project - Idea and Sketch
mp4 /
34 MB
5-3 Project - Research
mp4 /
31 MB
5-4 Project - Individual Construction
mp4 /
31 MB
5-5 Project - Line Drawing
mp4 /
17 MB
5-6 Project - Greyscale
mp4 /
81 MB
5-7 Project - Colors
mp4 /
24 MB
5-8 Project - Details
mp4 /
52 MB
6-1 Introduction – Different Portrait Types
mp4 /
7.3 MB
6-2 Drawing Old People
mp4 /
16 MB
6-3 Drawing Babies
mp4 /
22 MB
6-4 Drawing Small Children
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18 MB
6-5 Drawing School Children
mp4 /
18 MB
6-6 Drawing Teenagers
mp4 /
17 MB
6-7 Drawing Different Ethnicities
mp4 /
40 MB
6-8 Understanding Emotions
mp4 /
50 MB
7-1 Introduction – Different Portrait Workflow
mp4 /
19 MB
7-2 Project - Comic Style Portrait
mp4 /
51 MB
7-3 Project - Cartoon Style Portrait
mp4 /
64 MB
7-4 Project – Mixed Media Portrait
mp4 /
100 MB
7-5 Project – Direct Painting Portrait
mp4 /
62 MB
8-1 Introduction – Exercises
mp4 /
8.4 MB
8-2 Exercise – Portrait Studies
mp4 /
28 MB
8-3 Exercise – Advanced Construction
mp4 /
25 MB
8-4 Exercise – Skull Studies
mp4 /
39 MB
8-5 Exercise – Muscle Studies
mp4 /
34 MB
8-6 Exercise – Overdrawing
mp4 /
16 MB
8-7 Exercise – Role Models
mp4 /
19 MB
9-1 Project – A Portrait from the heart
mp4 /
35 MB
9-2 Summary and Self Reflection
mp4 /
25 MB
9-3 Feedback and Tips
mp4 /
83 MB
10-1 BONUS - Alien Portraits
mp4 /
41 MB
worksheet - StartingPoint
pdf /
430 KB
summary - proportions
pdf /
270 KB
summary - malefemaleproportions
pdf /
170 KB
overview - box
pdf /
100 KB
references - box
pdf /
390 KB
overview - cylinder
pdf /
89 KB
references - cylinder
pdf /
500 KB
overview - sphere
pdf /
110 KB
references - spheres
pdf /
810 KB
overview - LoomisConstruction
pdf /
91 KB
overview - eyes
pdf /
160 KB
overview - nose
pdf /
140 KB
overview - mouth
pdf /
130 KB
overview - ear
pdf /
150 KB
overview - hair
pdf /
180 KB
overview - skin
pdf /
140 KB
overview - completeConstructionProcess
pdf /
100 KB
ressources - artlearning
pdf /
130 KB
thumbnail - template high
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190 KB
thumbnail - template square
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200 KB
thumbnail - template wide
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170 KB
thumbnail - templates
pdf /
3.4 KB
worksheet - briefings
pdf /
63 KB
construction - portraitExample
jpg /
600 KB
linedrawing - STEPS portraitExample
psd /
6.3 MB
greyscale - portraitExample
psd /
10 MB
details - portraitExample
psd /
40 MB
overview - olderpeople
pdf /
130 KB
overview - babies
pdf /
330 KB
overview - ALLchildren
pdf /
170 KB
overview - smallChildren
pdf /
280 KB
overview - schoolChildren
pdf /
220 KB
overview - ALLageGroups
pdf /
280 KB
overview - teenagers
pdf /
220 KB
overview - african
pdf /
61 KB
overview - asian
pdf /
66 KB
overview - emotions
pdf /
360 MB
example - comicPortraits
psd /
2.2 MB
example - directPaintingPortrait
psd /
41 MB
example - portraitStudies
psd /
1000 KB
worksheet - weaknessAnalysis
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37 KB
overview - advancedconstruction
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59 KB
overview - skull
pdf /
630 KB
references - skull
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160 KB
overview - facialmuscles
pdf /
270 MB
references - facialmuscles
pdf /
190 KB
worksheet - artistanalysis
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41 KB
worksheet - finalportrait
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38 KB
template - beforeafter
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340 KB
Facial Features PACK
$20
License: Standard License
Stock Assets

For personal use and one commercial project (up to 2,000 sales or 20,000 views).

Tutorials

One copy to be used by a single user.

Installable Tools

One installation by a single user.

Learn More
Master drawing the facial features! You only receive section 4 of the course = Facial Features including: + 8 video tutorials covering every facial feature (anatomy, form, construction and drawing explained) = eyes, nose, ears, mouth, hair & skin + how to construct the head with those facial features + 7 materials about the facial features (summary sheets) Read MoreRead Less
Files (15)
4-1 Introduction – Facial Features
mp4 /
8.4 MB
4-2 Drawing Eyes
mp4 /
36 MB
4-3 Drawing Noses
mp4 /
23 MB
4-4 Drawing Mouths
mp4 /
36 MB
4-5 Drawing Ears
mp4 /
23 MB
4-6 Drawing Hair
mp4 /
33 MB
4-7 Drawing Skin
mp4 /
39 MB
4-8 Complete Construction
mp4 /
17 MB
overview - eyes
pdf /
160 KB
overview - nose
pdf /
140 KB
overview - mouth
pdf /
130 KB
overview - ear
pdf /
150 KB
overview - hair
pdf /
180 KB
overview - skin
pdf /
140 KB
overview - completeConstructionProcess
pdf /
100 KB
Self Portrait Project PACK
$10
License: Standard License
Stock Assets

For personal use and one commercial project (up to 2,000 sales or 20,000 views).

Tutorials

One copy to be used by a single user.

Installable Tools

One installation by a single user.

Learn More
Learn how to draw a digital portrait from start to finish! You only receive section 5 of the course = "Self Portrait Project – One Portrait from Start to Finish" including: + 8 video tutorials covering every step of professional portrait drawing = – ideation & sketch – research – line drawing – greyscale rendering – color rendering – details & final polish + 10 materials (example briefings, templates, 3 PSDs, ..) Read MoreRead Less
Files (18)
5-1 Introduction – Portrait Project
mp4 /
19 MB
5-2 Project - Idea and Sketch
mp4 /
34 MB
5-3 Project - Research
mp4 /
31 MB
5-4 Project - Individual Construction
mp4 /
31 MB
5-5 Project - Line Drawing
mp4 /
17 MB
5-6 Project - Greyscale
mp4 /
81 MB
5-7 Project - Colors
mp4 /
24 MB
5-8 Project - Details
mp4 /
52 MB
ressources - artlearning
pdf /
130 KB
thumbnail - template high
jpg /
190 KB
thumbnail - template square
jpg /
200 KB
thumbnail - template wide
jpg /
170 KB
thumbnail - templates
pdf /
3.4 KB
worksheet - briefings
pdf /
63 KB
construction - portraitExample
jpg /
600 KB
linedrawing - STEPS portraitExample
psd /
6.3 MB
greyscale - portraitExample
psd /
10 MB
details - portraitExample
psd /
40 MB
Comic Portraits TUTORIAL
$5
License: Standard License
Stock Assets

For personal use and one commercial project (up to 2,000 sales or 20,000 views).

Tutorials

One copy to be used by a single user.

Installable Tools

One installation by a single user.

Learn More
Master drawing Comic style Portraits now! You only receive the lesson "7-2 Project - Comic Style Portraits" including: + 1 (+ 12min) video tutorial explaining how to draw various comic style portraits in black and white from start to finish + 1 layered PSD file (sketch, line drawing, grey values layers) Read MoreRead Less
Files (2)
example - comicPortraits
psd /
2.2 MB
7-2 Project - Comic Style Portrait
mp4 /
51 MB