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Read more about the article Color Mixing for Skin Tones

How to mix skin tones is one of the most common questions I'm asked by students and emerging artists. While there is…

  • Post category:Eye Level – Design + Illustration Theory & Tutorials
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Read more about the article Portrait Sketch Tutorial: Bonita at 102

Older people provide a varied facial landscape to draw. In many ways, it's easier to describe the external contours when there are…

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Read more about the article Blue Steel: Anatomy Of A Portrait

In my article, Show Your Work, I talk about how showing your creative process increases your value to clients. If you are…

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Read more about the article Drawing Basics: Portrait Drawing Tutorial

A demonstration tutorial from my sketchbook using a bearded man as the subject.  

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Read more about the article Using Color Zones In Portraits

A color zone is an area where one color influences all colors in that area. This is known as color dominance, and it…

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Read more about the article Light and Shadow in Skin Tones

In this tutorial I begin with some color theory about skin tones and how we perceive light and shadow. Then I move…

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Read more about the article What Kind Of Freelancer Are You?

Did  you know that there is more than one way to be a freelancer? Independent creatives — freelancers — can choose a variety…

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I had my sketchbook open while viewing televised Congressional hearings. US Attorney General, Eric Holder, was up to bat, answering questions pitched…

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