Portrait Painting & Drawing - Art Instruction For Beginners

Portrait Drawing Easy Step by Step

This is a great little tutorial from artist Yong Chen on portrait drawing from a photo. He demonstrates an easy to follow step by step method for accurately laying out proportions to help you draw a portrait with a great likeness. I hope you find this lesson helpful. Visit the artist’s youtube channel here and […]

How to Draw Faces Easy Step by Step

Learn how to draw faces easy step by step with the following instructional drawing lessons created by experienced artists. How to Draw Faces Learn how to draw faces step by step from scratch. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to draw male and female faces. I’ll also demonstrate how to transform your characters by making […]

Palette Knife Portrait Painting Tutorial for beginners

In this post we will share an awesome step-by-step palette knife portrait painting tutorial from artist Sergey Gusey . I highly recommend you subscribe to his youtube channel here as he has awesome instructional content. One thing that needs explaining before you read further: While you can absolutely paint with a palette knife, and many […]

oil painting portraits from photos

Below we learn about oil painting portraits from photos through the work of three very talented portrait painting artists. There is definitely some disagreement amongst artists as to whether or not painting from a photograph is helpful or detrimental to your progress. Many say the best reference is a live model while others are perfectly […]

Loose Watercolor Portrait Tutorial

Learn how to paint beautiful and expressive watercolor portraits with the following loose watercolor portrait tutorials. Wet-on-wet Loose Watercolor Portrait Painting Process Process video of how I painted this girl using Kuretake Gansai Tambi watercolors and Escoda brushes. I employed a very loose wet-on-wet technique so the effect is Impressionistic. The entire process including pencil […]

Portrait Drawing in Charcoal – Time Lapse Demonstrations

Below are several fantastic time lapse portrait drawings created with charcoal by some very talented artists! Charcoal is definitely my favorite drawing medium. I like how you can smear, rub, brush and move charcoal around the support to create some very interesting effects. I guess it is because I am a painter at heart. Charcoal […]

Watercolor Portrait Painting Step by Step

Here is an amazing step by step watercolor painting tutorial from the Art Painting Workshop Youtube Channel.

Step by Step Portrait Study Walk Through in Watercolor

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Watercolor Portrait Painting of a Man

Here is an absolutely beautiful step by step watercolor portrait painting demonstration by artist Shibasaki. I adore this artists painting style and I know you will too! For more free watercolor tutorials, please be sure to visit his youtube channel here.

Old Master Style Portrait Painting Demonstration in Oils

Here is a wonderful step by step portrait painting demonstration in oils done in the classical style. This is only part one of the demonstration. At the time of this post, part 2 has not yet been created. Please subscribe to the artists youtube channel here to be notified when part 2 has been published. […]