Portraits will make sense after this video.

Learn more about our Portrait course: To join our upcoming Portrait course, and get all our figure drawing courses plus feedback and support as you learn, join our Study Group: Learn how to simplify the figure and draw it in just 10 days for free with our Fresh Eyes mini-course: In this video, you'll learn how to take the simplest (and most useful) parts of different methods like Loomis and Reilly to sketch portraits. Then you'll see how to build the values (light and shadow) to bring the portrait to a finish! I show the process first using watercolour and then using charcoal pencil - it's pretty much the same regardless of material.