Drawing Skills
Common Proportion Errors in a Head Study
Common proportion slips in a head drawn from life, and the few comparisons that catch them before you add detail.
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portrait
3 posts tagged "portrait".
Art History
Soft Pastel and the Close Portrait
Why soft pastel suited close eighteenth-century portraits, and how its powdery colour behaves on paper today.
Colour Theory
Mixing Skin Tones from a Small Palette
How to mix observed skin colour from a few tubes, without a single recipe that pretends every person is the same.