Fundamentals of Portrait Drawing with Pencil

Learn to sketch a portrait from scratch by exploring a variety of drawing techniques and bring it to life using basic shapes, tones, shadows, and line work

• Introduction
• The Basics
• Creating a Finished Head Sketch
• Taking the Sketch Further
• Final project

To learn how to draw a striking portrait, you need three things: a pencil, some practice, and a good teacher. In this online course, award-winning artist and teacher Matthew Smith teaches you the basics of portrait drawing, from the initial proportions to the final details. So really, all you need is a pencil.

Matthew takes you step by step through the process, starting with drawing exercises to warm up, sketching proportional facial features, adding detail with tones and shadows, to creating texture with line work. By the end of this course, you will be able to draw realistic and captivating portraits from scratch.