Online Portrait Drawing for Beginners

6 class meetings on Zoom

Sundays, Jan 12th-Feb 16th, 2025
9 am - 11 am CST

Zoom link will be emailed within 48 hours of registration.
Class recordings will be provided after each class meeting.

This class will cover all of the basics of portrait drawing for beginners including facial proportions for adults and children, rendering eyes, nose, lips & ears using the planes of the face, how to capture likeness, and basic bone/muscle structure of the human head.

Supply List:
• graphite Pencils (2H, 4H, 5H, 2B, 4B, 6B)
• graphite sticks
• synthetic eraser
• kneaded eraser
• charcoal pencils (soft, medium, hard)
• tortillions/blending stumps
• toned drawing paper (any size)
• drawing paper (any size)
• utility sketchbook/scratch paper (any size)
• white chalk pastel pencil and white chalk pastel sticks
• tracing paper
• print outs of black and white portrait photographs (recommended: self-portrait photographs or photographs of celebrities or interesting characters you'd like to draw-bring photographs you can draw on top of!)

Optional: Newsprint drawing pad, preferred images to work from, drawing board with
clip, blue tape

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Policies & Procedures

This class needs a minimum number of 4 students to enroll before the class can “make.” If the minimum enrollment has not been met 48 hours before the class begins, the class will be canceled/rescheduled. All students who enrolled in the class will be notified by telephone or email, and may transfer to a different class or be issued a refund (see refund procedure).

Please purchase a separate registration for anyone else who may be attending the class with you.

Cancellation / Refunds
Program attendance is the responsibility of the participant. Failure to attend a class does not entitle a participant to a transfer, makeup, prorate or refund. No refunds are issued for registrations that are cancelled without 7 days' advance notice of the class day. Refund requests made prior to 7 days before the class date will be paid in full.

Transfers
Failure to attend a class does not entitle a participant to a transfer, makeup, prorate or refund. If Adrienne cancels a class due to low enrollment, you are welcome to transfer your enrollment to another class/the rescheduled date of this class.