Figure and Portrait Drawing & Painting Video Lessons
| Welcome to the figure and portrait video section of CreativeSpotlite.com. Figure and portrait painting and drawing is one of the most difficult things to master. It has been said if you can draw or paint the human body, you can draw or paint anything. We have gathered a nice selection of free video lessons on the following pages that you are sure to learn a great deal from. The art instruction on the following pages has been generously donated by professional artists from all over the world. We are most grateful for their generosity and we hope you enjoy! | |
Free Figure and Portrait Art Tutorial Videos
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Structural Life Drawing with Gary Geraths (Otis College)
In this video drawing tutorial, artist and instructor Gary Geraths shows the first steps in creating a gestural, anatomical and structured life drawing from a live model. Figure drawing is one of the most challenging forms of art. Gary breaks things down for us in an easy to follow format that you are sure to learn a lot from. Please enjoy!
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Portrait Drawing Video Tutorial in Pencil
Here is an amazing portrait drawing video tutorial, of a female, done in pencil, by the very talented Artist Ancuta Iuliana Hodoroaba (also known as “Jullia”) from Romania. The title of this Drawing is “Smile”. You can view the finished drawing by following this link.
In this portrait drawing lesson, Jullia will take you step by step through her process of creating a realistic portrait drawing. Jullia is definitely one of the most talented portrait artists that I have found online. You can clearly see that she has the passion and patience that is necessary to create quality portraits like the one in the video below. -
How To Draw Realistic Hair – Video Tutorials
I found a couple of excellent videos today on how to draw realistic hair by artist Darrel Tank. Darrel is an amazing artist and author of the website: http://www.fivepencilmethod.com/. Darrel has perfected a unique technique for drawing amazingly realistic portraits and I invite you to visit his website above to learn more about him and his portrait drawing techniques.
Below are two videos Darrel created that demonstrate his technique on how to draw realistic hair in your portraits. I know his techniques are going to be a huge help for beginners who are struggling with portrait drawing, especially with drawing hair. Enjoy ! -
Human Figure Drawing Video Lessons
The following post contains five figure drawing videos by artist Cy Porter. These free drawing and animation tutorials are posted to help promote Cy’s animated films. He hopes you find these videos helpful and please take the time to check out some of his animation work at solomation.com...
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Portrait Painting Demonstration in Oils
In this step by step portrait painting demonstration, David R. Darrow, aka “Dave The Painting Guy” talks about how he paints a portrait with oil paint. He talks about how he sets up his canvas, the paints on his palette, special medium that he uses, how he sketches out the portrait and more. I learned a great deal about portrait painting by watching this video. One of the key points that I learned from this video is to keep the cheek and nose area redder than the rest of the face, while keeping the forehead and chin a bit more yellow. Check out the video below to learn more…
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Portrait Drawing Lesson – Edges and Tone
This is another great portrait drawing lesson by Matthew Archambault. In the video lesson below, Matt teaches you all about how to use soft and hard edges to your advantage. A big thanks to Matt for making this drawing lesson available! Matt has been working as a Freelance Illustrator for eighteen years. He also teaches drawing at the School of Visual Arts. He teaches in both the Illustration and Animation departments.