BECOME A LEVELING ARTIST
A place for people learning The Portrait System together, practicing, sharing work, and leveling up step by step, the same way I did starting from zero in 2022.
Limited spots available for early access.
Follow The Portrait System step by step, building skills in the same order I used to go from no experience to where I am now.
Post your work and get honest, specific feedback, not just likes and generic encouragement.
Access lessons, resources, and sessions built specifically for this group, shaped by what members are actually struggling with.
Practice alongside other members going through the same stages, with accountability instead of going it alone.
Applications are open for early access. To provide the best experience possible, the first launch is limited to a small group of founding members. If your application is a fit, you'll get an invite by email when enrollment opens.
I review every application myself. Your answers help me understand where you're starting from, so I can build this around real struggles, not guesses. Applications are required for consideration.
🔒 Your information stays private and is never shared.
See if you can relate.
People who've never drawn a face before and think "I'm just not talented enough" you don't need talent, you need the right practice plan.
People who want portrait drawing as a low-pressure hobby, not a side hustle, not a portfolio push, just something fun to get better at.
People who've watched every tutorial and still don't know what to actually practice, looking for one clear structure that leads to real results, not more scattered tips.
People who want drawing as a calm, low-stress creative outlet, something relaxing to unwind with, no pressure to perform or produce.
Learn portrait drawing in 1 year, 6 months, 1 month... how about 1 day. What's the fastest way to learn drawing?
Here's what actually happens: you watch tutorials, you follow along, you feel like you're learning. Then you sit alone with a blank page and your proportions are off.
Your faces look nothing like the reference. You don't know what to actually practice.
So you watch more tutorials, thinking the secret is just one more video away. But every tutorial tells you something different, and nobody's telling you what to do first.
The comparison starts creeping in. You see someone who's been drawing for 10 years and decide that's where you should be in 6 months. When you're not there, the story you tell yourself shifts:
I guess I'm just not talented. Or worse, I should be able to do this faster.
So you push. You set a deadline. You pressure yourself. And that's when limiting yourself with a deadline is the key that opens the door for stress to emerge with what you enjoy, and slowly turning it into something you avoid.
You don't wanna lose interest in something you really love just because you're impatient.
I almost did.
Before I realized that drawing is like a tree. Pouring more water won't necessarily mean it will grow faster. It needs the right amount and time. No matter how impatient you are, you should wait.
There's actual science on this.
A ceramics teacher once split their class: Group 1 had to make one perfect pot. Group 2 had to make as many pots as possible.
By the end, Group 2's pots were far superior in quality.
Why?
Because they weren't obsessing over making it perfect from the start. They were collecting experience. 20 pots taught them more than one perfect pot ever could.
Steve Jobs said it: "Creativity is just connecting things. The more ideas you collect, the more powerful your work becomes."
You don't get better at drawing by trying to nail it fast. You get better by collecting 10 drawings, then 100, 500 a 1000. Each one is practice.
Each one is getting you better without realizing it.
In the Leveling Artists community, you learn at the right pace that will ensure your improvement without risking becoming stressed or overwhelmed.
We focus on making drawing your stress relief activity, something to help you chill and relax after a hard day or week.
Not another source of stress.
Not another place you're failing.
The exclusive course inside the community has short, easy-to-follow videos with drawing exercises in PDF format (that can be printed) after each lesson.
One principle at a time.
So you're always on the right track before moving to the next one.
No more tutorial rabbit holes or guessing what to practice.
But here's what actually matters:
you're doing this with people who made the same choice.
People who also realized that speed doesn't equal commitment, it equals burnout. People that believe talent isn't necessary to learn drawing, no one to make you feel behind. People who stopped comparing themselves negatively and started collecting drawings at their own pace instead.
If you're looking to master portraits in 30 days, this isn't it.
If you think natural talent matters more than a clear practice plan, or you believe you either have it or you don't, then Leveling Artists isn't your community.
We're building something for a different kind of person.
This is for people who realized the thing stopping them wasn't lack of talent, it was working hard on the wrong things, practicing without a clear plan.
That's who Leveling Artists is for.
I didn't come to drawing through art school, or a childhood spent sketching, or any kind of natural gift. I came from a mathematics background, no prior art identity at all. In 2022, I picked up a pencil and started, the same way anyone reading this might be starting today.
What got me through the early, frustrating stages wasn't talent, it was treating drawing like a problem to solve. I studied why portraits worked structurally, broke the process into steps, and practiced deliberately instead of just 'drawing more.' That system is what eventually became Leveling Artist.
Since then, the community has grown to over 250,000+ followers, built without paid ads, entirely through people sharing an approach that actually worked for them.
