Looking back to the Renaissance draftsmen, Gustavo Ramos completes a drawing with a focus on delicacy of form, bold shape design, and nuanced mark-making. Watch over the artist's shoulder as he makes use of a diverse array of materials ranging from graphite to pastel to create a sophisticated portrait drawing from the ground up.

Follow along as Ramos walks you through his meticulous approach that landed the front-cover in 2020’s The Best of Drawing magazine. This in-depth demonstration will help the beginner or advanced student internalize principles of light, structure, tonal abstraction, shape design, and value refinement as it relates to portraiture.

What you’ll learn:

How to achieve a high level of finish in a time efficient way.
What to look for when establishing proportions.
Selecting the right paper and making the most out of its qualities.
How to naturally and intuitively render skin texture with pencil.
Blending vs. cross-hatching, how to best use both.
The importance of dissecting and simplifying visual information.
A method of establishing tones that saves hours of work.
How to achieve rich darks and preserve the lights.

Language - English

Duration - 3h 5m

Aspect Ratio - 9:16

Media type - Streaming, not physical

Painting the Portrait

Drawing the Portrait