Portrait drawing

We've chosen some of our favourite portrait drawing sessions for you to work through
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Lizet Dingemans
Monday 27 April, 2020
In this short video, Lizet Dingemans will be sharing the materials she uses for drawing such as pencils, rubbers, blending tools, charcoal, and papers.
Lizet Dingemans
Sunday 7 February, 2021
This week's 1-hour portrait drawing session with Lizet Dingemans will be focusing on the eye. She will explain the different elements that make up an eye including the brows as she draws three 20-minute poses.
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Lizet Dingemans
Sunday 17 October, 2021
In this week's 1-hour portrait drawing session, Lizet Dingemans will be focusing on the features and expressions as she sketches two 30-minute poses of John.
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Lizet Dingemans
Sunday 16 January, 2022
In this week's 1-hour portrait drawing session, Lizet Dingemans will take you through a single hour-long pose of Josh focusing on the methods used by the golden age illustrators from the 1960s.
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Lizet Dingemans
Monday 4 April, 2022
In this short Raw Umber's Studio Essential video, Lizet Dingemans explains and provide hints and tips on how to measure properly in order to achieve accurate drawings.
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Lizet Dingemans
Sunday 31 July, 2022
Join Lizet Dingemans and invite a friend to this completely FREE portrait drawing session! Bring your charcoal and be ready for 2 x 30 minute poses with model John.
Lizet Dingemans
Sunday 25 September, 2022
This portrait class is FREE! Lizet Dingemans shows us how to use 'blocks of tones' to capture model Bindu. One hour, one pose. Bring your charcoal.
Lydia Cecil
Wednesday 15 February, 2023
Time for another quick draw figure session! Join Lydia Cecil for 11 short charcoal poses of model Shariff.
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Luca Indraccolo
Sunday 19 March, 2023
Luca Indraccolo shows us how to use anatomical landmarks to align features in this hour-long single pose portrait class. Using a terra cotta pencil to capture model Joanna. Please note if you're attending from the US, that the sessions will be an hour later than normal until March 25th.
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Patrick Byrnes
Monday 16 October, 2023
In this gold subscriber special, tutor Patrick Byrnes takes us through how to capture model Varosha using the blocking-in method, using graphite pencils.
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Luca Indraccolo
Sunday 5 November, 2023
Join Luca Indraccolo for this hour-long portrait drawing class of model Tatiana! For this session, Luca will be using: grey stonehenge paper, pencils B, HB, H, putty rubber and pencil eraser.
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Luca Indraccolo
Sunday 12 November, 2023
Spend an hour with Luca Indraccolo as he draws model Rowan in this online portrait class, looking into why we use thumbnails! Luca is using grey Stonehenge paper, pencils B, HB, H, putty rubber and pencil eraser.
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Lizet Dingemans
Sunday 24 December, 2023
Lizet Dingemans is armed with coloured pencils for this hour-long portrait drawing session! Capture model Melvyn using a selection of red, black, white pencils on toned paper.
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Patrick Byrnes
Saturday 30 December, 2023
Patrick Byrnes is back for a New Years Eve (eve) special! In this hour-long portrait drawing session, Patrick uses graphite and white chalk on toned paper to capture model Raj, beginning with simple abstract shapes and ending will the fully detailed sketch. This session is for ALL subscribers, and is not a live class.
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Patrick Byrnes
Monday 25 November, 2024
Join Patrick Byrnes as he paints Shariff from life using a full colour palette. Patrick will talk about painting the model from life and give hints and tips about how to achieve a likeness; how to choose colours; how to achieve a sense of dimensionality; and much, much more.
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