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Mastering Colored Pencil Portraits: Drawing for Beginners

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10 chapters · 15 hours 7 minutes
English · Japanese · Korean|Audio Korean

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Skills You’ll Learn

Facial Proportions Using Simple Shapes

Hyun Mi has simplified the process of drawing facial features. She will teach you how to use simple shapes and lines to locate and draw all the facial features.

Covering All the Angles

Portraits aren’t always front facing. Learn how to sketch the proportions and shapes of faces at 9 different angles

Coloring the Eyes, Nose, and Lips

Sketching gives the portrait shape, but coloring gives it life. Learn how to use a blend of colors to add life to your portraits.

Adding Hairstyles

Hairstyles will give your portraits character. Learn how the lines you draw change the hairstyle, and techniques that will help you add a unique and elegant hairstyle of your own.

Using Photo References

Photos can give you ideas of certain details to add and props you can give your characters. Hyun Mi will show you how to use pictures to add details, accessories, and flowers to your portraits.

Planning Your Colors

Are you afraid of adding color to your drawings? Learn how to make a coloring plan that will act as a reference when coloring your portraits. The coloring plan will take away the intimidation of coloring.

Putting Everything Together

Now you can create your own character portraits, from start to finish! But just in case you’re not ready to draw on your own, Hyun Mi will walk you through a full portrait, from start to finish.

Learn from a self-taught artist who developed her own unique style creating elegant character portraits

No experience necessary! Even if you’ve never learned how to draw portraits, you will be able to take this class and learn how to draw portraits easily. I have prepared simple techniques that will help you create beautiful works of art, just like me!

The Secret of Proportions

Starting by learning the structure of bones, muscles, and movements can be a little difficult and honestly kind of boring. Instead, I'm going to help you draw characters with proportions that will transform your drawing into a portrait more beautiful than photos. There is a magic to my ratios that makes my portraits different from reality.

You can create chic and trendy portraits by using different angles

Glamorous looks are made by the angle of the face and the “gaze” treatment. Even the slightest difference in turning, lifting or lowering a face can produce subtle lines that you can't create otherwise. Depending on where your subjects are looking, you can make your portrait look even better. Learn how to find attractive face angles and make it look as though the portrait is making eye contact with viewers.

Hyun Mi will teach you how to add atmosphere to your character portraits.

If you draw green leaves or flowers with the character, the character's personality or mood will become more visible. Of course, it also adds something more to see, so the quality of the picture is even higher! Learn how to find and draw plants or flowers that go well with the image of each person.


I'll also give you tips on adding a glamorous hairstyle and how to find a color scheme that always works!


With a few simple lines and basic coloring techniques, you’ll be able to master drawing glamorous colored pencil portraits. Come draw with me!

Class Kit · Coaching Session
  • Below tools will be used during the class. You can also order the All-in-one package to elevate the learning experience. (The tools are picked together with the creator for the classmates.)


  • Prisma color pencil 48 colors
  • The soft texture and solid color make it possible to achieve a dark color without having to draw over and over again.
  • Bristol Sketchpad 300 smooth (230 * 300) Volume 1
  • When colored pencils are blended with a thick, smooth surface of paper, the paper does not occur and smooth expression is possible.
  • 1 Faber Castell 3-prong pencil sharpener
  • Prisma colored pencils tend to be fragile and often break and break, but this pencil sharpener does not break easily and the lead does not become too long.
  • 1 tombow eraser
  • If you use colored pencils lightly, you can erase to some extent. Use it to erase mistakes or add highlights.


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Curriculum

Creator

Hyunmi Lee

Hyunmi Lee

Hello. I’m Hyunmi Lee, an artist who draws chic colored pencil portraits of girl characters.

I work on illustrations on advertisements, packages, etc. that go in in publications. It's been 13 years since I've become a full-time artist. I want to become an artist whose drawings are used in various media outlets.

Recently I've been working on a project where I draw girls with colored pencils. I use just a few soft colored pencils and simple steps to complete my illustrations. They are more realistic than simple illustrations that consist only of sketch lines, and it is more casual than reality.

I’ve never taught offline classes, but I've written quite a few books. Starting with Painter Holic, a book on the Corel Painter program, there are 'Fashion Girl Hand Drawing Illustration' and 'Character Illustration Drawing', two books about using pencils and colored pencils.

I'm constantly writing books. My ninth book is coming soon, and the tenth book is currently being written. I’m currently located in a quiet, small studio in Seogwipo, south of Jeju Island.

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