Learning how to draw and render hyperrealistic portraits is a skill anyone can acquire. In this series, we'll be drawing photo realistic portrait studies using graphite & charcoal pencils. This episode is part 4 in the series 'Daily Exercises to Improve Your Portraits' and will focus on drawing ears. Here, you'll get an opportunity to render beautiful soft skin incorporating a full value range, including subtle skin detail and hair highlights using a Mono Zero Eraser, along with a step by step process to build a striking hyperrealistic ear - Including stippling, skin and shadow detail, hard and soft elements - shallow depth of field effect, and a full value range.

Ear Study: Smooth Skin Blends & Fine Hair Detailing Using Mono Zero Eraser
Ear Study: Hyperrealism - Base Layers
Ear Study: Hyperrealism Lower Half - Stippling & Skin Texture
Ear Study: Hyperrealism Upper Half - Directional Skin Patterns & Focal Effects

Join commission based hyperrealist artist Shayne Wise Art as he guides you through a series of 28 daily realism drawing practices. The complete series is broken down and divided into 8 individual classes for easy digestion, with each class focusing on different areas within a portrait. Classes are offered numerically 1-8, and are recommended to be completed in such order. Each individual Lesson has been designed and organised in such a way so as to improve your skill set, either by teaching new techniques, repeating and practising newly learned skills, or increasing time and building patience. The overall objective of this course is to not only teach the techniques and knowledge required to render beautiful photorealistic portraiture, but also to instil them. Throughout the series, students will get the chance to repeat newly learned skills until they become accustomed.

Knowing how to utilise a full set of values is the number one foundational skill to acquire for creating realism art - First we master value, then we apply detail. Patience, another foundational skill required for realism can be nurtured by working on smaller projects as they allow you to stay focused while you master procedure and technique, without becoming overwhelmed and fatigued.

Beginner to advanced artists welcomed! Also included within the series...

Master how to layer different pencil compositions to showcase a full range of beautifully rich, saturated tones.
Light tonal blends
Dark tonal blends
Straight hair
Procedural breakdown for drawing curly hair
Hard and soft elements - in and out of focus
Skin texture
Hyperrealism, and so much more!

Students will gain the knowledge and confidence to use a full range of values in any form of pencil art. They will learn how to observe and re-create details that help achieve realism and authenticity, a skillset that actually translates beyond portraiture and pencil drawing, and is relevant practice for lots of visual arts!

Whether you want to improve your portraits for personal use or to start a career in commission based portraiture, this class will catapult you to new artistic levels. So grab those pencils and let’s get cracking! :)

Linda Koevoets

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