This course helped improve my art so much. Much appreciated! Especially glad to be able to do a portrait since they can be hard to get right.

My first attempt at a full render of a portrait drawing. I've been bouncing between this course and Michael Hampton's course trying to figure out a method that works for me. This one certainly took me quite some time, probably like 7 hours over a couple days. Any critique is always welcome.

In the first attempt I only got 30mins into the demo and got frustrated and rushed it. The second I used a different charcoal pencil which helped me lay down tone. I focused on trying to properly use charcoal as a medium but the proportions suffered. Overall I feel I improved in some aspect. I tried working on a larger scale which was challenging and made all of my weaknesses more obvious. Overall I found it a fun process and find it easier to find what I need to improve on by drawing larger.

Loved the demo! Any critique on eye placement or general proportion would be appreciated. I couldn’t tell if something was off.

This is my progress from 2024-2025 drawing my self-portrait. Much of my practice came from Proko. Thank you!

Final portrait study. I feel like hair is definitely my biggest weakness, but I gave it my best shot.

2025/1/8. Good morning everybody. Here's my second oil painting that closes my 2024 artistic production: "La Pucelle d'Orleans" (oil on canvas F6). Thanks for any comment or critique. Have a good day!

What a great course. Have never done portraiture before this. Feeling good for first time ever doing this.

2024/9/6. Good evening everybody. Here's my latest portraiture. Pencil on Kent paper (29.7 x 42 cm). Thanks for any comment or critique. Good night.

Done on charcoal

I think I have somewhat improved at drawing faces, but most importantly I see after going through this course that I need to learn more technical skills, like constructing the planes of the face and improving my approach to shading.

Hi everyone, my biggest struggle with portraits right now is I have the overall proportions of the head correct, but if I place a feature like an eye, nose, mouth, or cheek incorrectly by a millimeter, it ruins the likeness. My eye is trained enough to see it’s wrong, but I don’t know how to get unstuck and place the feature correctly. Any tips on how to practice here is much appreciated. Thanks! -John W.

2024/6/22. Good morning everybody. Here's my latest portrait. ("Incarnato e Panneggio_studio", Carbothello pastel pencils on Pastelmat paper, 21x29.7 cm). It's a study about fabric and skin rendering. My apologies for the low quality of the photo. Thanks for any comment or critique.

2024/6/7. Good afternoon everybody. Here's my latest work, a tribute to the greatest musical of all time and to one of my favorite heroines: "The Wicked Witch of the West" (Carbothello pastels pencils and Rembrandt pastels on Pastelmat paper). Thank you for your comments and critique.

2024/4/21. Good morning everybody. Here's my Face Muscles Study. I hope it can be helpful to you too. Thanks and have a good Sunday.

2024/4/5. Good morning everybody. This is not a portrait but since there's no section for head anatomy I hope you don't mind if I post it here. Thanks for any comment or suggestion. Have a good day.

Here's my drawing of Morgan. I followed the demo, but focused more on the reference this time. I also paused the video often, especially in the initial layin and made sure I was happy with the placement of everything before I started designing shadow shapes. The tell tale sign for me that this was a better approach was that I didn't have the same issue with the forehead that Stan ran into. I did correct the little protruding brow on the left eye as it was pushing out too far and I also reshaped the chin slightly. I also discovered that taking a photo of my drawings helps me spot things I need to fix. Similar to stepping back to see a drawing from a distance. I've really enjoyed this course and I'm sure I will reference these lessons as I continue to work on drawing portraits!

Hi everyone, here's my attempt. Any comments welcome

2024/1/8. Good morning to the whole community. I created this study sheet during the last week and the weekend to put together all the information, data and direct experience gained over more than two months in which I concentrated on studying Elsa's design . Obviously it is completely personal and although it is based on Jin Kim's sketches, it reflects my ideal of Elsa's design. I'm sure there are still things to say and maybe even mistakes but I think it's still a good starting point. If you have any suggestions or advice that could help me improve it, I would be grateful if you would leave a comment. If you think it might be useful, feel free to download it and even modify it. There are no problems. In the next few weeks I will continue to practice by copying the material found but also by creating original poses and expressions. I will post my works always hoping for your kind contribution. A Super Thanks to @Martha Muniz , without her very important contribution I would never have been able to carry out this study.

2024/1/1. Good evening everybody. Happy New Year to Stan, Proko Staff and all the community. Here's my last/first work for 2023/24. I fixed the firsts twos after @Martha Muniz gave some important tips about how to adjust proportions and shapes. If you find some other mistakes or problems please leave a comment. Thanks!