Episode 1: Different pencils and its grades and other tools:

Let’s see how many pencils and other tools you do have currently. If you are missing out few are material you can buy them as well as it will certainly enhance your drawing skills, but if you have even a minimum numbers of tools, wow… you are all set for this class.

Episode 2: Basic shading and its utilisation in this series

Practice for different kind of shading by using cross hatching, contouring and circulism. Make square boxes and add shading into it. Also add layers from only one pencil and change pressure on it so as to get the different lines in a row. This is certainly strengthening your control over pencil.

Episode 3: Generic head or face shape: correct proportions

Practice different head angles by using the method explained in this episode. If you practice 10 heads per day, this will actually enhance your ability to create any face from any angle in generic terms.

Episode 4: Eyes

These are the most important feature in face anatomy. If you are able to draw them perfectly you will be able to make most of the portraits and resembled them as well with the reference image. Try to practice them from different angles. If you get the mastery over eye drawing, try to create expressions in eyes.

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Episode 5: Nose

As mentioned in the episode try to assume nose in the forms of planes and add shades and values to them. This will certainly help you in better understanding of lights and shades.

Episode 6: Lips

Lips are bit complicated but at the same time very important part in feature of face. For practicing it, the best is to draw circles or waves to form the upper lip and lower lip. Don’t put much pressure on the pencil and paper to draw its outlines as it will be difficult to erase in later stage.

Episode 7: Ears

For ears, you must practice for its structure than its internal shape. Form its structure and try to draw it from different angle by rotation the structure in its vertical axis.

Episode 8: How to draw hair

So there are many types of hair style these days, all you need to practice is to actually follow the real texture of hair and allow yourself to draw bunch of hair with confidence. The most complicated is the curly hair. Practice regularly to draw it perfectly as I have mentioned in its episode.

Episode 9: Outline drawing using Pencil measurements techniques

So practice this technique as much as you can do. Always keep pencil with you and observe it any dimension from it and try to transfer the measurement on the paper and then draw it. Also try this for live drawing demonstration and see how much you are confident enough to get the proportion.

Episode 10: how to draw outlines of face

You need to take a print out of any reference image what you want to try and then try to measure its dimensions as mentioned in the episode.

Episode 11 &12: Shading & finishing

The key is to draw very lightly first and then when you feel that the outlines are more than 50% correct and accurate go with the shading on it. If the outlines are not up to the mark with at least 50 % resemblance, don’t go for shading, redo it again.

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