Portrait Sketchbooking: Explore the Human Face

Discover the fundamentals of portraiture by learning to draw facial features and tracking your progress in a sketchbook

• Introduction
• The Basics of Drawing a Face
• Main Project
• Documenting Your Work
• Final project

Portrait drawing can seem like a challenging skill to learn, since every face is unique and filled with detail. However, developing your ability by practicing on a sketchbook is the ideal way to improve, since you can track your artistic progress. Artist Gabriela Niko believes that portraiture is a fascinating form of self-expression and has a natural power to attract the viewer's attention.

In this course, Gabriela takes you through the basics of drawing portraits down to the finer details. Learn about proportion, structure, and how to draw facial features by drawing three different types of portraits. Express your artistic vision by capturing the essence of each unique face you draw.