Portrait Drawing Tips

How to draw portraits from imagination

Although drawing portraits from imagination is something every child can do, not many art students can do it proficiently. To make realistic portraits, you need to know several things, first of all - constructive drawing principles, including proportions and anatomy. You also need the know-how of portrait drawing. Here's the thing - it is not enough to be aware of constructive drawing principles, you need to know how to apply them in portraiture. That is especially important when drawing from imagination because there is no model you can draw from. Drawing portraits from imagination is a great way of developing your creativity. When you know all the rules and proportions, you can bend those rules to achieve something you might never meet in life; for example, new characters for comic books, illustrations, beautiful pin-ups or scary monsters. To learn good rules of portrait drawing and also how to bend those rules for creative projects, take the Life Drawing Academy Correspondence Course

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