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Take your drawing skills to the next level!
This course will deliver over 8 hours of video content with in-depth and detailed tutorials about realistic drawing. You will learn essential drawing techniques and skills to achieve a life-like manner finish of your portrait using charcoal and graphite. We will be drawing an entire eye from START to FINISH.
Limited special offer -60%!
Enjoy the entire course for €99 instead €249!
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✓ Life-time access
✓ Certificate of completion
✓ Beginner friendly
✓ Over 8 hours of video & audio tutorials
What you will learn
✓ The essential tools and how to use them
✓ The fundamental techniques to draw a realistic portrait
✓ The different types of charcoal and graphite
✓ Understanding the tonal values and layering
✓ Understanding and analysing your reference photo.
✓ Easiest method to draw proportions and outlines
✓ How to blend charcoal and graphite
✓ Application and blending techniques
✓ How to create layers to achieve the most realistic skin
✓ Create smooth transitions between different tonal values
✓ How to texturize and highlight the skin
✓ How to draw pores, blemishes, lashes, brows
✓ How to draw a complete realistic eye from start to finish
Limited special offer -60%!
Enjoy the entire course for €99 instead €249!
USE CODE: STUDENT
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Understand the tools
In-depth explanation on how to use each tool to achieve hyper-realistic results.
Understand the different types of charcoal
In-depth demonstration showing you the different types of charcoal and how to use them properly.
Learn the easiest method to draw proportions
In-depth explanation on how you can use a a tools called a ''Scale divider'' to go from a small photo to a large drawing. No free hand drawing required!
Don't take my word for it, here is what my dear students have to say..
Grady Diang
''Where do I start… this course was almost life changing for me in many ways! It enabled me to learn and also really develop my drawing skills. The clarity of the course was incredible It was very easy follow along. I learnt a lot about the difference between the mediums, I learnt how and when to use which tool. I also learnt about being patient with your drawing , that patience help me enter a peaceful state of mind which I loved! She was also open to answering further questions that I had off topic which was very helpful. If you want to develop your skills you should certainly invest in yourself, it was one of the best investments I’ve ever made. Amazing experience !''
Elif
I took part in this course when it First launched. All the steps are so clear and easy to follow! And I APPRECIATE THAT SO MUCH! But I also appreciate that the different tools and mediums were shown at the beginning with some alternatives and with an explanation about why we need them and how to use them in different ways. So it was not only following the artist and copying what she is doing it really was understanding and learning for the future. The possibility to watch the course again is also brilliant so I can easily just rewatch it in a few months or also years to see what she told about certain things or I can Just draw it again to see my own development again.
I always knew that I am good at drawing but I could never imagine that I am able to draw THIS piece. My drawing skills improved so much and I will practice even more cause there is still some room for improvement''
@artbyelif__
Limited special offer -60%!
Enjoy the entire course for €99 instead €249!
USE CODE: STUDENT
(Not valid on payment plans)
INSIDE THE COURSE
Over 8 hours of video tutorials
- 1. Reference photo
- 2. Before we start
- 3. The grid
- 4. The outlines / proportions
- 5. The Iris
- 6. Shading the eye
- 7. Shading the undereye
- 8. Texturing the undereye
- 9. Shading the uppereye
- 10. Drawing the eyelashes
- 11. Shading the skin
- 12. Shading & texturing the skin: Part II
- 13. Drawing the brows
- 14. Highlighting & texturing the skin
- 15. Completing the skin shading & texturing
- 15. Final touch-ups
Materials list / required tools
- Conte a Paris charcoal - Pierre Noire 3B - (OR General's charcoal pencil 6B)
- Faber castell compressed charcoal sticks soft - (OR Derwent XL charcoal 05 black)
- Refillable lead pencil / mechanical pencil 0.5 - (OR a 2B, 3B, F graphite pencil)
- Faber castell graphite Matt pencil 14B - (OR Steadler lumograph black 8B)
- Faber castell regular graphite pencil 6B & 8B - (Or any other brand)
- Graphite powder
- Make-up brushes in various sizes - (Brow, eyeshadow, eyeliner brush, make sure they are soft, I recommend purchasing a set of make-up brushes that have various sizes and shapes)
- Makeup sponges - (OR cotton if you do not have sponges)
- Blending stumps or tortillions (Any brand)
- Tombow mono zero eraser pen - (OR Faber castell eraser pencil or any eraser pen you have)
- Kneeded eraser
- Arches watercolor paper Satine hotpressed 300gsm. - (you can use any paper you like, just make sure it is smooth and thick enough, at least 170 gsm).
- Scale divider - (OR circle compass)
- Regular Sharpner
- Utility snap-off knife / blade
- sand paper (optional)
- Derwent sprinkler (optional) (Use anything you have to make charcoal powder)
About the artist
Oumaima Choua (b.1997) is a self-taught artist of Moroccan heritage who was born in The Netherlands.
Her hyperrealistic portraits explore the psychology of her subjects by portraying them on large canvasses. Choua has crafted her style over many years, experimenting with shapes, textures, tones and different medium.
Using her preferred medium of graphite and charcoal, Choua uses her large scale works to evoke the emotions, thoughts and feelings of her subjects whilst capturing the essence of the human experience. Her striking use of light and tone immortalise the figures in her work, giving them an ethereal quality. Often bare skinned and in dramatic poses, each work tells a story of not only the creative process but the artist’s own connection with the figures she recreates.
For Oumaima Choua, drawing has been a part of her her whole life. As a curious and observant youngster, Choua loved to explore the colours and shapes found in her surroundings. On the blank page her imagination runs wild. Her works are a limitless space in which she expresses her freedom and creativity, giving people stories and worlds where they can project their own experiences.
As she continues to perfect her style, Choua has debuted her work at the International Art Fair 2021 in the Van Gogh Gallery, Austria.
