8 TIPS - DRAW A BETTER PORTRAIT (Realistic Face From Life)

This drawing tutorial gives you 8 helpful tips to improve your drawing and to learn how to draw a better realistic portrait and realistic face from life. It’s a complete art lesson on how to draw a portrait from life. And then how to finish that live portrait in your studio, working from a photo. You’ll find that these 8 tips are foundational to drawing a realistic face using any drawing medium, including charcoal or graphite pencil. And these art tips cover every step of the portraiture drawing process. Yes! You can absolutely follow along as I work from live model Corrie and use sighting to determine the height-to-width ratio of her face, indicate placement of her features, block in the basic shapes of her face, establish the shadow and light shapes, and then refine everything to bring Corrie’s portrait to a realistic finish. SUBSCRIBE FOR MORE HOW TO DRAW & PAINT VIDEOS: ▸ WATCH NEXT: ▸