“Join Lavanya Siddeshwar’s comprehensive course and unlock the secrets to creating stunning, lifelike portraits.”
Do you find it challenging to achieve that perfect lifelike quality in your portraits? Perhaps you’ve spent countless hours practicing, only to feel frustrated by the lack of progress. Many aspiring artists face these common hurdles:
You’re not alone in feeling this way, and there’s a solution that can help you overcome these obstacles.
Transform Your Artistic Journey with Expert Guidance
Imagine a transformative experience where your drawing skills evolve to new heights. Our course provides:
With our course, you’ll witness a remarkable improvement in your ability to create realistic portraits, gaining both confidence and satisfaction in your artistic endeavors.
(Realistic Drawing Principles & Fundamentals)
Materials: You will get introduced to the variety of drawing materials we are going to use in portrait drawing, & their purpose
Shading techniques: You will get to learn three different types of shading techniques
Grayscale: Studying tonal values is really important to get a realistic look in any form of visual art. We will train yourself to differentiate the minute tonal changes
Gradation: How to use a smooth blending of pencil strokes to get smooth gradation between dark and lighter values, without using any blending material
Creating Depth: Adding required depth is very important to get a realistic look in the drawing. Here we learn how to add depth using spheroid rendering
Sphere Rendering: Learning Sphere Rendering is a must to learn realism. The sphere is the best example to study lights and shadows. Here we get to learn how to differentiate lights and shadows, we will get practice doing multidirectional strokes. This is very much useful in portrait drawing.
(Drawing Realistic Face features)
Hair Drawing with Graphite: Drawing hair can be very tricky for a lot of beginners. Here in this lesson, we are going to learn how to draw hair in a very easy and fundamental way to get the realistic texture of the hair using graphite.
Hair Drawing with Charcoal: Charcoal is a great medium to get extra dark values in any drawing, but it is difficult to get minute details, here we will learn how to use charcoal to get realistic looking hair.
Ear Drawing: The ear is not a flat surface, it has lots of depths and highlights. This is a good practice for the implementation of some fundamentals we have learnt before.
Nose Drawing: Drawing a nose can be really tricky for lots of us, Here we will learn how to do some advanced level pencil rendering without showing the harsh edgesBefore you start the week 6 lesson, complete the assignments from week 5 and get a review from us.
Realistic Eye Drawing: In this video lesson we are going to learn How to draw realistic eye, by observing tonal variations how we can create the major impact
Realistic Lips Drawing: In this video lesson we are going to learn how to draw realistic lips, how to get soft and glossy look to the lips
(Drawing Realistic Face features)
Gridline Method: Drawing a perfect outline is very important in getting a realistic look in any portrait drawing. It is also important to get the right proportions and resemblance to match the reference photo. This can be achieved using the gridline method to draw an outline. In this video lesson, we are going to learn how to draw outlines using the gridline method.
Realistic Portrait Shading
Here we begin the actual portrait shading, all that we learned in the previous lessons are helping us to draw realistic portrait drawings. Be slow, enjoy the process.
Observe: Here comes the final step, before quickly saying it is done, observe and do the little improvements which are necessary
Submit your work and get a review from us.
Hello! I’m Lavanya Siddeshwar, your passionate art educator. With a lifetime dedicated to art and teaching, I’ve helped countless students master the craft of realistic portrait drawing. My journey in art has been marked by numerous accolades, but my true joy comes from seeing my students’ progress and success. I believe in a hands-on, personal approach to teaching, ensuring every student not only learns but thrives in their artistic endeavors.
No prior experience is necessary. The course is designed to take you from the fundamentals to advanced techniques, suitable for beginners and intermediate artists.
Yes, the course is fully accessible on laptops, tablets, and mobile devices for convenient learning on the go.
Yes, we offer weekly live sessions where you can receive personalized feedback, ask questions, and interact with Lavanya Siddeshwar and fellow students.
You can ask questions and get support through our active Whatsapp groups, where the community and instructors are available to help.
Absolutely. You can submit your assignments for review and receive constructive feedback from Lavanya Siddeshwar during live sessions or through our online community.
You can enroll by clicking the “Join Now” button on the course page and completing the payment process.
