Paint a Large, Expressive Portrait: Use Storytelling, Symbolism, and Emotion to Go Beyond Likeness

Create eye-catching, multilayered and visually complex portraits in Procreate, incorporating analog elements

If you paint digital portraits and want to spice them up, this class is for you!

Paint an expressive oil painting in fifteen 10-minute video lessons!

Do you want to create a graphic, bold and expressive still-life that feels dynamic and unique while developing your own illustration style? 

This course will be centered on improving your portrait photography abilities to convey mood, feeling, and emotions. We will do this by exploring how to plan, shoot, and edit original portraits. 

This portrait drawing course will teach you how to draw beautiful, realistic portraits that capture the subject's likeness.

Learn to draw diverse portraits with a fun sketchbook practice! Capturing the personality, expression and mood of a human face can be a challenging subject to master for artists. Following tips and insights gained over years of my artwork practice, you and I will find out what it takes to capture the likeness of someone. We’ll debate the different approaches to portrait drawing, figurative Vs. stylized, and come up with a finely reasoned conclusion. But most importantly we'll enjoy the time we set up for ourselves for drawing!

In this class we demystify the illustration process! Learn to draw energetic portraits, add layers of personality and complexity, dress-up your characters and place them in enchanted settings.

Throughout the class I walk you through my creative process from rough character sketch to character design, from finding the basic elements of energetic poses to illustrating an imaginary scene.
Starting with painting a dynamic portrait, you’ll learn how to make the drawing your own without copying what you see in a reference photo, using it for inspiration and a starting point to your own artwork. You’ll Learn to use masks and shading techniques, draw with the eraser, and paint relatable character in settings that tell a story. By the end of class you’ll be able to illustrate a complete scene around a dynamic portrait with skill and ease.

This class will walk you step by step through adding a fun layer of animated illustration onto a photographic portrait. This can be exported as a GIF straight from Photoshop (lessons 1-10), or students can also learn how to create a video file using the same assets in After Effects, so the video can be shared on social media. (lessons 11-14)