Drawing Portraits From Photos: B&W to Color
360 Online Class | Registration opens 7/14/2025 12:00 AM PDT
Instruction Medium: Range of options
Students will work from cast references for value rendering practice. Three views - profile, three quarter and frontal views of both male and female head. Demos on grid layout and exercises on skin tone color layering will lead to working from color references. Although options of photo references will be provided, students may work from their own photographic references. For your reference photo, look for good lighting with light, middle and dark values to help you see the structure of the face.
- Required:
- Students can use their own supplies of a range of H – B graphite pencils, S,M,H charcoal pencils and vine charcoal, kneaded and white plastic erasers, and ball point or gel pens
- Any good sketch book paper 9x12, 11 x 14 or choice of size
- Colored pencil - I will use Prismacolor Pencils
Optional:
- If you are looking for a drawing set, I recommend Glokers 33-Piece Drawing Art Set or similar sets