In this course you will learn a simple method that will allow you to create realistic portraits using professional pencils and paper.

-You will learn how to use key points to create the outline of your character

-How to create a shadow map to divide the different areas of the face

– How to do the shading process

WHY DRAW A PORTRAIT IF YOU ALREADY

DOES THE PHOTOGRAPH EXIST?

Ever since photography was invented in the 18th century, there has been an intense

debate about whether there is a need for drawing and painting

represent reality in a naturalistic way, since the camera

it does (supposedly) much better.

But we have to understand that a portrait is not a photo of a

person, is an interpretation of that person through the

mind of an artist and that interpretation in my opinion, is more real

than the mechanical interpretation of a camera.

For thousands of years man has seen the same objects: horses,

bulls, trees, faces, people, etc. And for thousands of years the artists

of each generation have found different ways of representing

these objects.

Colombian maestro Fernando Botero, one of the greatest

contemporary artists, says that if we want to create our own style,

we have to be able to represent something as simple as a

orange in a way that is totally personal and that anyone

seeing it can recognize who created it. In (Fig I.3)

we can see how master Botero solves this problem by

draw an orange with your style clearly distinguishable.

Learning to represent a face realistically will help us

understand the basic principles of drawing: perspective,

proportions, composition, line, shading, etc.

Understanding the fundamentals and principles is essential to

to be able to create a clearly distinguishable pictorial language (style).

That is why in this course we are not going to see only the steps, as

if we were making a kitchen recipe, but we are going to

occupy ourselves with understanding what are the problems that we have to solve

at each step and we will propose a solution.

Understanding the problem will in turn allow you to propose other solutions.

different from those proposed in the course, since mastering the method that

I will teach you in the following chapters will give you a starting point for

be able to experience later.