I did a portrait drawing demo with artist Xiaonan, creator of the popular YouTube channel "The Portrait Art". We did a succession of rapid portraits for my 50 Heads Drawing Challenge and talked all things art in the process, my professional history, my drawing thought process and much more.

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ONCE INSIDE THE COURSE YOU'LL DISCOVER:

• An easy to follow three-step drawing process using just pencil and paper to help you create unique illustrative portraits and characters

• 3 hours of drawing demonstration showing the process

• A mindset and framework you need to begin creating ideas to draw

• Planning resource guide to organize your story ideas and capture visual inspiration

• Introduction to the tools I use

In this 3rd installment of ART DIRECTION SECRETS TO MAKE YOUR PORTRAITS STAND OUT I cover line quality. It's a topic often overlooked that brings many benefits to the impact of your drawing on the page such as depth, emotion, creating a focus and style. With a little attention, you can quickly master this skill and target the use of it in your portraits to make them stand out above the rest.

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This is the second lesson in a series on how to make your portraits stand out and get attention. In this video, you will discover how our eyes function to take in information around us. Because the eye jumps around you can use that information to think of your portrait more like a storyboard which will create movement and interest for your viewers. Remember, you are the art director and that means you have total control over what your viewers see and to some extent what they experience when looking at your art.

This is a first of 2 in a series on how to make your portraits stand out and get attention. You'll discover how to create empathy and bring backstory elements to draw people in and keep their attention. Remember, you are the art director and that means you have total control over what your viewers see and to some extent what they experience when looking at your art.

How to Begin Controlling Your Mark Making

A student of mine recently asked about mark making and pencil control when drawing portraits with traditional media.

He says, "can you give me some advice in relation with the pencil grip and arm control? actually I do want to draw with just my arm and shoulder movement. I see that great masters do it that way, but it's pretty difficult. I know it requires practice but can you help me with some trick or something, because I feel that I loose a lot of accuracy and precision.

There's no 'trick' or magic or even a pill for this that'll make it suddenly better.

To start, in the early stages of doing a new motion/skill, even if you've been doing it for a while, everything is kind of random. You are doing it a mix of wrong and right, and you really can't tell when you are in either camp, and, there are a lot of completing movements that are trying to take over, most of which you are not conscious of.

According to Troy Grady, who teaches...