The Ultimate Portrait Drawing Course – Beginner to Advanced

1. Learn at your own pace in this 20-week online course.
2. Artistic guidance & feedback from the artist herself
3. Engaged & supportive community of peers to exchange feedback.
4. English subtitles (Original audio in Korean)
5. Enroll now to start learning right away!

1. Introducing the course
2. Meet Doop: illustrator, artist, and instructor
3. Let’s look at the materials needed for this course
4. Sharpening with a knife instead of a pencil sharpener

1. About Pencils: Characteristics of HB/3B/6B pencils
2. How to create lines with a pencil: Pressure, Thickness, and Length
3. Assembling lines to create the perfect portrait

1. Learn about the secrets of contrast with richness and depth: the ratio of brightness
2. Express depth by overlapping lines: Hatching
3. Express depth using the blur effect: Smudging
4. TIP: Setting mood and tone (TIP: Why tone smudges and becomes cloudy)

1. Let’s learn about the basic structure of the face and tips for positioning the facial features
2. Three important things when creating a portrait: Ratio, Symmetry, and Margins
3. TIP: Drawing each side of the face

1. Learn about the foundation when sketching the eyes, nose, and mouth
2. Learn about the various details in the eyes: The pupils, iris and the eyelids
3. Creating a naturalistic nose and lips
4. Drawing realistic eyelashes and eyebrows
5. BONUS: Drawing the eyes, nose, and mouth like Doop

1. Learn how shading and interplay of light and negative space expresses depth and spatiality
2. Creating mood and atmosphere by hatching and smudging
3. TIP: The easiest and most effective way to make your portrait look professional

1. Let’s learn how to depict powerful emotions on the face
2. Let’s learn how to contrast white, black, and grey
3. Let’s learn how light and shadow subtly change the atmosphere of the portrait

1. How to flawlessly sketch hair
2. Drawing hair while maintaining texture: Going from dark to medium to bright
3. TIP: Drawing natural, lovely, and sleek hair

1. TIP: Choosing a good photo to draw
2. Let’s learn how to determine basic shapes and contrast from your photo
3. BONUS: Full Demo drawing based on the curriculum

Supplementary practice: Polishing Lines and tones

Congratulations on completing the course!

• People who love to create and express themselves
• People who tend to erase a lot when drawing
• People who want a depth of expression in their portraits
• People who want to improve and take their drawings to the next level!

(Materials actually used by the artist Doop)

• Faber-Castel 9000 Graphite Pencil (HB, 3B)
  Used for overall sketches and base tones.

• Staedtler Mars Lumograph Pencil (6B)
  Primarily used to emphasize the thickest part.

• Tombow Pencil Eraser for Artist, Professional Use.
  Erases pencil lines neatly.

• DM Sketch Pad (B5, 200g, 20sheets)
  Kent paper / Please note that the cover may change.

• Sakura Gelly Roll Pen White (0.8mm)
  Used to express highlights during the final phase of drawing.

• Staedtler Pencil Extender
  Used for short pencils.