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  1. How To Draw And Paint Watercolor Portraits For Beg

    Learn the basics of drawing and painting realistic portraits in watercolour, from proportions and shapes to edges and shadows. Follow the step-by-step tutorial with tips, examples and a free downloadable course.

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    Producing a convincing portrait is one of the most difficult artistic challenges there is. With landscapes, you have a lot of margin for error but when it comes to faces, everyone is an expert on how they should look. Reading faces and facial expressions is something that’s been hard-wired into us from birth. For this reason, even a non-artist can ...

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    It’s obvious really but if you want to draw faces well, then you need to draw a lot of faces. I recommend keeping a sketchbook and drawing faces at every opportunity. Aim to draw 10 faces a day. It doesn’t matter if you’re drawing from photos or from life. When drawing a face, or anything for that matter, always start with the largest shapes and wo...

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    I’m talking about the proportions of an idealised head here. It’s the slight variations in these proportions that gives people their own unique appearance. Idealised proportions are useful to memorise though, because we can use them as a guide to check that we aren’t wildly deviating from reality. A head is essentially an oval. If you draw a horizo...

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    The eyes are arguably the most important part of a portrait. If you get them wrong the whole portrait will look wrong. Remember that the eyes are round and three dimensional, yet they are often depicted as flat almond shapes. When drawing eyes really observe how the skin of the eyelids wraps around the eye. As the head turns sideways the circle of ...

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