All About Drawing Realistic Portraits in Pencil

I recently finished my series of pencil portrait lessons and thought I’d put them all in one easy-to-access place for you! Here are 17 helpful articles that cover everything from drawing the individual facial features to shading your drawings. Everything you need to learn how to draw realistic portraits is here!

The lessons take two different forms: a how to lesson that features drawing  hints and strategies, and a tutorial that takes you through each process step-by-step.

How Tos

How to Draw Eyes

How to Draw Lips

How to Draw the Nose

How to Draw Ears

How to Draw Hair

How to Draw Portraits

 

 Tutorials

Drawing Eyes

Drawing the Nose

Drawing Lips

Drawing Ears

Drawing Hair

Drawing Portraits Part 1

Drawing Portraits Part 2

 

 Other Useful Articles

How to Grid

Gridding Tutorial

How to Shade

Shading Tutorial

 

If you have any questions relating to portrait drawing, or other tutorials that you’d like to see, send me an email and let me know!

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Related posts:

  1. How to Draw Ears
  2. Drawing Portraits: Proportions of the Head
  3. How to Draw a Portrait
  4. How to Draw the Ear - Tutorial
  5. How to Draw Lifelike Portraits from Photographs - Lee Hammond

2 Responses to “All About Drawing Realistic Portraits in Pencil”

  1. trish Says:

    hey!! Just wanted to let you know, I haven’t forgotten about that, I’m just really slow getting to it-but I will!
    have a great week!
    xo
    Trish


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