Exercise 1: Practice identifying and drawing shadow shapes!

Portrait Drawing by Chris Hong - image 1 - student project

Exercise 2: Get familiar with drawing landmarks and simple shapes for features!

Portrait Drawing by Chris Hong - image 2 - student project
Exercise 3: Practice doing some block-ins!

Portrait Drawing by Chris Hong - image 6 - student project

Portrait Drawing by Chris Hong - image 7 - student project

Final project: Do a portrait drawing from start to finish from a photo reference!

Portrait Drawing by Chris Hong - image 8 - student project

Portrait Drawing by Chris Hong - image 9 - student project

Portrait Drawing by Chris Hong - image 10 - student project

Portrait Drawing by Chris Hong - image 11 - student project

I can't wait to see what you can do! I have a pretty good eye for seeing if you've applied some of the concepts covered in the class ;) so don't skip any of the exercises and try them out! Tracing is perfectly fine for the exercises to get a feel for everything when starting out, but once you feel more comfortable I encourage you to take the training wheels off and try drawing it all on your own!

Happy Studies!

- Chris.

Chris Hong

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