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LinkedIn – Figure Drawing The Portrait Free Download

Course description

Artists have been drawing the portrait for centuries. One of the best ways to practice drawing the head and features is to start with understanding the structure and proportion of the skull. Once that foundation is established, adding expressive features is easy. In this course, instructor Amy Wynne begins with an introduction to the skull’s key landmarks and proportions from three views: frontal, three quarters, and profile. Next, Amy shows you the facial features and the key muscles that act on them to create expression. She demonstrates techniques to simplify the head and features into easy-to-draw geometries that allow you to add basic tonal rendering. Amy also goes over the head’s attachment to the neck and shoulders, as well as compositional choices in portraiture.

Introduction
Figure drawing: The portrait
1m 21s
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Courses to support your portrait practice
20s
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Using the exercise files
9s
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1. The Skull
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Visualizing subcutaneous skeletal landmarks
4m 55s

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Learn the frontal proportions of a skull
8m 25s

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Learn the 3/4 view proportions of a skull
7m 15s

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Learn the profile proportions of a skull
6m 30s

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Challenge: Draw a skull from three views
46s

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Solution: Draw a skull from three views
2m 52s

2. The Features
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Draw eyes
9m 31s

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Draw a nose
5m 54s

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Draw a mouth
6m 38s

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Draw ears
4m 30s

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Challenge: Draw three views of each feature
35s

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Solution: Draw three views of each feature
3m 7s

3. Expressions
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Understand muscles acting on the forehead and eyes
3m 53s

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Understand muscles acting on the mouth and nose
3m 33s

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Challenge: Draw expression and emotion
38s

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Solution: Draw expression and emotion
7m 28s

4. X-Ray Vision: Overlaying Features
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Overlay features on a frontal skull, attach neck/shoulders
10m 29s

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Overlay features on a 3/4 skull
6m 8s

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Overlay features on a profile skull
5m 8s

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Challenge: Draw features on top of a skull
37s

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Solution: Draw features on top of a skull
2m 52s

Conclusion
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Demo: Putting it all together
13m 37s

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Next steps
43s