I love doing demos at my weekly portrait class and we sometimes tackle well known faces. I often get asked by my students how I get a true likeness in my portraits. It's all well and good drawing a convincing head but getting it to look like the subject is a whole new set of challenges. For me it's about getting the specific relationships between the features. Small inaccuracies matter a lot more than people expect. Here’s how I typically approach it: Miriam Margoles - Pastel on Canson paper...

How to mix flesh tones using 3 colours

My New Years resolution for 2023 is to try and draw from life every day even if it's just for 5 minutes. Admittedly, it's not going to be...