Best Portrait Drawing Techniques

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  • Опубліковано 13 вер 2024
  • Welcome to our ultimate guide on the best drawing techniques for artists of all levels! 🎨 Whether you're just starting out or looking to refine your skills, this video covers essential methods that will elevate your drawing game. From mastering the use of basic charcoal pencils, erasers, and blending tools, to understanding light and shadow to exploring advanced shading techniques and texture creation, to achieve superb realism; we've got you covered in this full tutorial. In this video, you'll learn: Basic Shapes & Proportions: The building blocks of any great drawing. Shading & Lighting: How to bring your drawings to life with depth and realism. Texture Techniques: Add detail and dimension with these tips. Description of different drawing materials, from pencils, erasers to even brushes for blending! Capture the likeness of your subjects by using the Plumb and Level Technique. Don't forget to grab your sketchbook and follow along! ✏️ 👉 Subscribe to our channel for more art tips, tutorials, and inspiration every week. Hit the notification bell so you never miss an update! Happy drawing! ✍️

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  • @martacrawfordfineart
    @martacrawfordfineart  20 днів тому +3

    I hope you enjoy this video and I want to know which techniques you find most useful in your own drawings and why! Please share in your comments. Happy drawing!

  • @michealbohmer2871
    @michealbohmer2871 7 днів тому +1

    Thanks, Marta; great video and beautiful portrait. I think the model would be quite happy even had it been a commissioned portrait---you made her look younger. Wonderful.

  • @FishingtonBurpPuzzle
    @FishingtonBurpPuzzle 7 днів тому +1

    She is a classic beauty and great actor. Very striking and beautiful portrait.

  • @robbieslater1951
    @robbieslater1951 7 днів тому +2

    Bravo brilliant. She's beautiful. Thank you so much for sharing and inspiring us

  • @sorpichnita4391
    @sorpichnita4391 8 днів тому +2

    All I could say is perfect ❤️

  • @basicsforbaroqueimprovisation
    @basicsforbaroqueimprovisation 9 днів тому +1

    Thank you Marta ! I watched this entire video closely and was marveling again and again how this portrait started as powdered charcoal dropped onto paper. You do wonderful work ! This video reinforces the importance of tonal values and composition in a great way. Compared to the reference photo your portrait looks much more hopeful and up-lifting. As if the girl in the reference photo had gone through a healing. Lovely. Best Wishes - John ( I subscribed ! )

    • @martacrawfordfineart
      @martacrawfordfineart  9 днів тому +1

      @@basicsforbaroqueimprovisation , Wow! What a beautiful sentiment. I am so glad that you enjoyed it and the observation you had was insightful. We put ourselves into every thing we do and this is why every artists work is different. Art should inspire . Thank you so much for subscribing John!

  • @lindamacgregor8039
    @lindamacgregor8039 11 днів тому +1

    Just wonderful to watch you work and see the immediate results. Your process demystifies the whole drawing sequence and I'm less intimidated after watching you create this fabulous portrait. Thank you so much!

    • @martacrawfordfineart
      @martacrawfordfineart  11 днів тому

      @@lindamacgregor8039 , thank you so much for the thoughtful comment. I’m so glad you enjoyed it and found it helpful!

  • @DGI300
    @DGI300 9 днів тому +1

    Thank you so much! You are an amazing artist and a great teacher. Much love to you.

    • @martacrawfordfineart
      @martacrawfordfineart  9 днів тому

      @@DGI300 Thank you so much for your thoughtful comment. I do appreciate it and sending much love to you back!

  • @christianbond1561
    @christianbond1561 13 днів тому +1

    I enjoy your commentary plus your approach working from the outside in that makes a lot of sense and when you don’t know where to start, you have to have a good beginning like that. Thank you for the video. It was really informative.

    • @martacrawfordfineart
      @martacrawfordfineart  13 днів тому +1

      @@christianbond1561 , thank you so much! I am glad you found the video informative!

  • @SecretRiverArt
    @SecretRiverArt 13 днів тому +1

    Such beautiful work! I've started my "art journey" two weeks ago. I have absolutely 0 experience but still hope to become as experienced as you are! Thank you for sharing your work

    • @martacrawfordfineart
      @martacrawfordfineart  13 днів тому +1

      @@SecretRiverArt , I am so glad you started! You are at the best stage, the stage of excitement. Keep going and remember that the process is far more important than the outcome. You must fall in love with the process.

    • @Epath399
      @Epath399 12 днів тому

      Me too!! Trying to teach myself 😩

    • @SecretRiverArt
      @SecretRiverArt 12 днів тому

      @@martacrawfordfineart Thank you for your kind words! I would love to hear about your experience when you first started your journey as an artist and also what you focused on as a student

  • @passage2enBleu
    @passage2enBleu 10 днів тому +2

    thanks. i preferred the first version. she appeared to step out of the 19th century. the latter version seems more modern.

    • @martacrawfordfineart
      @martacrawfordfineart  9 днів тому

      @@passage2enBleu , yes. You are correct; there’s beauty in stopping at the beginning stages when there’s more mystery. I’ll make some videos like that; stopping before the drawing is refined.

  • @ernestolapena3289
    @ernestolapena3289 10 днів тому +1

    I love it. Amazing ❤

  • @brendalazellestephenson2319
    @brendalazellestephenson2319 3 дні тому

    amazing talent - thanks for sharing

  • @emmari0601
    @emmari0601 12 днів тому +1

    Simply gorgeous and so inspiring! Thank you SO much! Much love from Norway

  • @SaharNateghiArt
    @SaharNateghiArt 6 днів тому

    This video is so useful 💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯

  • @DONNYART66
    @DONNYART66 10 днів тому +2

    Wowww 🥰🥰Very beautiful and stunning, the process of drawing using charcoal is truly extraordinary 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

  • @MayaDrawingArt
    @MayaDrawingArt 19 днів тому +2

    Good work 🎉 well done 👍🏽 18:07

  • @yardsaleuw3075
    @yardsaleuw3075 6 днів тому

    Drawing is prettier than the original.

  • @ArtByBraga
    @ArtByBraga 20 днів тому +2

    I really needed this video. Thank you very much👏👏

    • @martacrawfordfineart
      @martacrawfordfineart  20 днів тому

      @@ArtByBraga , thank you so much. I am so glad it helped you! That’s what is all about.

  • @quintusquesz5610
    @quintusquesz5610 4 дні тому

    Thank you... its great great work.

  • @FlakoBarrios
    @FlakoBarrios 13 днів тому +1

    Good work

  • @gigiandrea9524
    @gigiandrea9524 19 днів тому +1

    I love this, really amazing..m

  • @Divyv520
    @Divyv520 12 днів тому +3

    Hey Painting with Marta , really nice video ! I was wondering if I could help you with more Quality Editing in your videos and also make a highly engaging Thumbnail and also help you with the overall youtube strategy and growth ! Pls let me know what do you think ?

  • @luzarsacdetoro903
    @luzarsacdetoro903 12 днів тому

    Au secours!!!

  • @rachmonte
    @rachmonte 9 днів тому

    Ok. This is beautiful but the measurements are off. She reduced the size of her forehead, width of her face, length of her jaw and size of her eyes just to mention a few things that prevents her lovely drawing from actually resembling the model. She made her face too small. The drawing looks more like a younger girl vs a gorgeous young woman. Still very lovely but not to her likeness. Also, her mouth is wider than in the drawing. The whole volume of the head is too narrow.

    • @martacrawfordfineart
      @martacrawfordfineart  9 днів тому +2

      Remember that this is not an exact copy of a photo. I mentioned that. I took artistic license. I do t see the point on making her look exactly like the photo: it will take far too long as a starter, plus for that, there’s photography. Since it’s not a commission. Also, the perspective is different because of the camera.

    • @rachmonte
      @rachmonte 9 днів тому

      ​@@martacrawfordfineart The way you drew it makes it look like you were going for likeness. On second thought, I just read your description beneath the demo again. It clearly implies you are going for likeness and are showing methods to achieve such.

  • @jimreynolds5967
    @jimreynolds5967 19 днів тому +2

    music too loud.

    • @martacrawfordfineart
      @martacrawfordfineart  19 днів тому

      @@jimreynolds5967 , thank you for the input. I will take notice for next time!. Other than that, did you extract any value from the video? There were only two music pieces here. The rest was talk.

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    @BD-YouTube-Developer 15 днів тому

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