Pastel Portrait Tutorials

On these pages you will find listings of pastel portrait tutorials of people created by us as well as those submitted by you, our loyal audience. Here you will find step-by-step pastel portrait lessons and pastel portrait techniques on drawing the human head using various techniques such as beginning the construction using the traditional oval, or egg shape. You may learn the inside out system preferred by portrait artist Daniel Greene, the ball & plane method independently developed by illustrators Andrew Loomis & Ms. E. Grace Hanks, other tutorials, and more. We may even show you how to construct the features of the human head, which include the eyes, ears, nose and mouth. Being an interactive site, you will learn by practicing the tutorials freely demonstrated on these pages. Enjoy.

Oh, by the way, here are three fascinating tutorial websites I recommend. One is an art related website called Art Made Easy , and the other two are for digital photography. One is called Digital Photography In Focus and the other one is called Digital-Photography-How-To.com . As you no doubt realize, taking digital photographs of your portrait models can be very helpful in obtaining a good likeness.

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Coming soon! Drawgirl will no longer be alone, for in the coming months, and on these very pages, there will be more free tutorials, even easier to follow than our Drawgirl tutorial, which is already pretty easy as it is. And, along with the free ones, there will be some offered for sale, which will be more comprehensive, detailed, and in-depth. And yes, they will be easy to follow, also.

All of them, the free and the ones for sale, will be homemade by us and exclusively offered right here.

If you wish to be notified when they will become available, please go to our Contact Us page and just let us know. You will be the first to benefit.

In the meantime, you can enjoy some free pastel portrait video tutorials from a couple of talented artists. One is Kevin Bentley. Maybe you can have him create some custom portraits for you. Either way, do visit his marvelous site. To do that, please point your mouse directly to the tutorial page on Mr. Bentley's website found at:

http://bentleysportraits.org/tutorial.aspx

The other talented artist, named Jason, created a series of portrait video tutorials found on YouTube, called "Learn to Draw Portraits." Here is Episode 1:

Jason has created over 70 videos and it will take awhile to go through them all. If you want to see if it is worth it to you, here is a speed painting pastel portrait he did. It took a couple of hours to complete, but, here it is sped up to reduce the time down to about six minutes.

If you enjoyed that showing and want to know more, then see all 27 - and counting - lessons at this Learn to Draw Portraits Playlist .

To see all of Jason's online training videos, including his pastel portrait videos, go to Learn to Draw Playlist .