Portrait drawing taught as fundamentals you can practice on paper. Built for beginners, and artist who wants to improve.
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THE METHOD
Most beginners start with an eyelash and end up erasing for an hour. Start with the basic head first, then carve the features on top like a scuplture.
Block the head as a solid, three dimensional form before a single feature goes down.
Place the eyes, nose and mouth onto structure that is already correct underneath.
Fix one thing per drawing. Chasing five at once is what keeps you in the eraser spiral.
The full method from a blank page to a finished portrait. Written for someone who has never drawn a face and does not know where to start.
A visual reference with angles, features and proportions laid out to draw alongside.
Print them and draw straight onto the page. Repetition is what makes the method stick.
I came from mathematics, with no art school behind me and nothing that looked like a head start. What worked was treating a face as structure I could measure.
These books teach that same approach, at a pace that keeps you drawing.
Moe, founder of Leveling Artist