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In this book, we will address the black-and-white drawing of the eyes seen from the front or their en face portrait. You will see four studies with an interesting piece of information on the different structure of the eye of Europeans and Asians. One...

At first sight, an eye in profile seems to be simpler to draw, just like a whole profile picture. In drawing, there are no easier things and more difficult things. You need to pay exactly the same attention to each drawing. Together, in these...

In this e-book, you will learn about the popular technique of three pencils for the first time. This technique is very old, and it has been popular among painters since the Renaissance. It consists of the use of chalk in three colors: red (reddle,...

Forget about the simple bordered mouth made with a single trace and see what the mouth really looks like. So, let’s go back to the very beginnings of drawing the lips whose shapes is determined by light and shade, and obviously well executed hatching. 

This time, you will address rather atypical lips, both drawn in semi-profile but also with a smile of a Hollywood star. Especially when drawing the teeth, you will learn how to avoid the most common mistake, which are spaces between the teeth highlighted in...

In the book, you will be drawing the ear from many sides using different techniques. You will learn that even though the ear seems very complicated at first sight, it consists of several basic shapes we all have in our ears.

In this book, you will start from the very basis: first, you will learn how to draw the individual strands of hair, you will understand what the importance of shine in hair is when drawing, and then you will be just plaiting and unbraiding...

There are lessons full of entertainment waiting for you, in which you will see, on simple and playful drawings approaching comics, how to draw thirty examples of both men’s and women’s haircuts simply. It is also an inspiring book at the same time, including...

Drawing hair is about doing magic with light. In the following lessons, you will focus on more realist drawings. Especially when working with charcoal, you will see how easily you can reach the realist effect. You will be surprised that you can manage yourself...

You will draw a portrait of a young man rendered in the popular combination of grey, black and white. So, the three colors technique has been used, with one of the colors being the paper shade. In this case paper with a rough surface...

The challenge of this drawing does not consist so much in the material being used (that is similar to the one used in the previous portraits), but the angle under which the face has been drawn. The girl is turned sideways to us, but...

In this drawing, a set of oil pencil pastels has been used, and, for the three-colors drawing, an unusual combination was chosen: The black, the white and the olive. As a background, unbleached recycled paper has been used. The three-quarter turning of the face...

In this lesson, you will draw the portrait of the young woman in an interesting combination of brown and gold hues. It reminds us a bit of period photographs in the sepia shade which were in vogue in the past. And indeed, the sepia...

You will draw a portrait of a Japanese young man that is the only one of this portrait series which is completely en face. Although at first sight, the drawing looks like a black-and-white one, besides the black charcoal, several hues of gray pastel...

The beauty of Japanese women resides in the almost unearthly softness and at the same time the inner strength they bring from their previous generations. This is what the portrait of this girl is like, being a drawing on a piece of soft apricot...

The sketch can be called a rough or fast drawing. Without a sketch, you can´t draw a portrait that corresponds to reality. You will see how to promote a sketch to art. Because the technique is one thing, and other thing is the ability...

In this book, you will let more color into your experimenting with black-and-white drawing. until now, you were working mainly with black-and-white drawing and the three-colors technique. Even without striving for a ´real´ color portrait, you will meet all colors in a playful way...

Zažijte něco nového a ponořte se do světa vůní malířských ateliérů a portrétů. E-knihy Portrét pravou hemisférou Vás formou mého osobního příběhu provedou souborem všech Ateliérů a poodhalí Vám mnoho tipů na své kreslení. Jejich posláním je provést vás krok za krokem souborem postupů...

Výtvarnice Dana Činčarová ve své knize vypráví, co ji vedlo  k tomu, aby začala učit malovat druhé lidi. Prostřednictvím osobních  příběhů ze svého života popisuje, jak vznikala její výtvarná metoda, která má charakter relaxačního malování. Její upřímné a otevřené sdělení přibližuje jednu z cest, jenž  může...

Slunce někdy prosvítá mezi listy stromů a promítá tak na jiný keř „slunečné flíčky“. V pozadí obrazu je zeleň právě takto nasvícená na více místech sluncem. Ukážeme si výtvarnou techniku, jak takové pozadí obrazu namalovat. Během malování zažijeme barevnou proměnu motýla. Z běláska se...