portrait

Paint a Portrait You Can Be Proud Of

Painting from Photos Today you are painting a portrait from photos. The project is to use the photos supplied and create an exciting portrait from photos. You’ll be using today’s electronic and digital tools. The Wacom® Cintique touch/pressure sensitive monitor. Paint with digital paints using Corel Painter 11 You are doing a portrait painting in [...]

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Drawing From the Model -Quick Sketches

Weekly Life Figure Drawing Series Meet Model S Quick Sketching – Short Poses I have chosen Pose #6 for todays drawings. They are all short poses, from 1 to 10 minutes. Quick sketching is the warm up process. Usually done on newsprint paper, the model does a series of one minute poses for a 20 [...]

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Drawing from the Model - Self Portrait

Weekly Live Model Series The model didn’t show today This is a frequent occurrence at figure drawing sessions. You’re all setup and ready to draw. The model is a no show. What to do. Grab a hand, wall, or any other mirror. Go for it. You always have a model available. Today I’ll show you [...]

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Drawing from the Model - Session 1

      Have you ever attended a Life Drawing Workshop? Drawing from the model is a weekly ritual for most figure and portrait artist.  I invite you to be part of this journey. Come into my studio, meet the model and look over my shoulder.  A new model or new pose each week, and a look into [...]

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Sketchnotes

THIS IS BLOG WEEK   Did you ever think of taking notes and making those notes into a piece of art? I love to draw, so this really caught my attention. I found his blog and these incredible notes by John Uhri. This is a sample of one of the sketchnotes that he took at the [...]

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Portrait Painting Demo

     Using Photos for Reference TAKE A SEAT AND ENJOY  Today I am working in my ultimate digital art studio.  This is an oil painting demo using the Wacom® Cintique touch/pressure sensitive monitor and Corel® Painter 11. I will be demonstrating a portrait using photos supplied by the client.   I start each portrait in a [...]

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