Part 8 | Drawing Hyper Realistic Hair: Daily Exercises to Improve Your Portraits

Creating fine art, hyperrealism, or photorealism is 100% attainable for any beginner artist. In this series, you’ll learn the step by step process for drawing photorealistic portraits using graphite & charcoal pencils. This episode is part 8 in the series Daily Exercises to Improve Your Portraits and will focus on hair. 

During this episode, you'll get the opportunity to render studies using graphite only, graphite/carbon mix, and Conte charcoal pencils. Studies include;

• Realistic wavy blonde and brunette hair - the first incorporating a light to mid tone value range, the second incorporating a mid to dark tone value range, and I'll show you two different ways of building value.
• Straight hair including a shallow depth of field effect, where you'll get the chance to render soft, out of focus textures sitting side by side focused detail.
• Curly hair - A comprehensive procedural breakdown on how to attack tight curly hair.

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 of portraiture. Classes are offered numerically 1-8, and are recommended to be completed in such order.

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. Each individual Lesson is built on the last and has been designed and organised in such a way so as to improve your skill set, either by teaching new techniques, repeating and honing newly learned skills, or increasing time and so building patience.

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!

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
• Shallow depth of field effect (in & out of focus)
• Highlight detailing
• Straight, Blonde hair, & Brunette Hair
• Procedural breakdown for drawing curly hair
• Hyperrealistic skin texture
• Super smooth 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 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! :)