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How to Master a Portrait Drawing in Less Than Five Minutes

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Drawing Instruction Instructional How Draw Pencil Time-lapse Paper Tips Portrait Human Faces Render Teach
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  • Updated: 09-Nov-09
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  • Added: 05-Jun-08

Artist Merrill Kazanjian breaks down the process of drawing from a photograph and simplifies it in to three steps. A time lapse demonstration is done at the end. Kazanjian's videotaped himself drawing a pencil portrait over the course of an hour. Kazanjian narrates as the hour-long drawing is sped up in to three fact filled minutes. It is a great video to see if you want to impove your portrait drawing skills. This video covers, contour drawing, drawing from observation, crosshatching, tones, breaking drawings in to shapes to simplify the drawing process and drawing the features of the human face. It is an instructional, traditional drawing, video. For more drawing tips from Merrill Kazanjian or to see his art, contact him through his website; merrillk.com (more)

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    I love your presentation! You are a natural born teacher of art. I am an artist in the states and have worked mostly in pencil drawing and charchol. I am now trying watercolor but I am having trouble not to add so much sketching in my pieces.... can you help? Thanks much dear!! CJ Missouri

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      Thank you so much for the feedback and I appreciate the compliment on my teaching! Watercolor is not my favorite medium. But, I use prismacolor and AD markers in place of watercolor (I demo this on many of the videos that I uploaded after this one. Check out the video- "Illustration with marker and color pencil" Let me know what you think!
      MK :)

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