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• Charcoal · Beginner

  Charcoal drawing fundamentals

  Charcoal moves fast and forgives almost nothing, which is exactly why it teaches value faster than pencil ever will. You work from a toned sheet, pull the light out rather than draw it in, and stop before you overwork it.

  45–60 min4 steps
• Acrylic · Beginner

  Acrylic painting for beginners

  Acrylic dries fast and covers opaquely, which makes it the most forgiving paint to learn on — almost any mistake can simply be painted over once it dries. The trick is working thin to thick and keeping your palette wet.

  60–90 min5 steps
• Charcoal · Intermediate

  Charcoal portrait, step by step

  A portrait lives or dies on proportion long before it gets anywhere near shading. Measure first, block the shadow shapes as flat masses, and only then start rendering — most portraits fail because that order gets reversed.

  90 min–2 hr5 steps
• Pencil · Intermediate

  The Loomis method for heads

  Andrew Loomis's construction: a sphere, two sliced-off side planes, and a jaw hung from it. Get those three right and you can turn a head to any angle you like — including angles you have no reference for.

  30–45 min6 steps
• Pencil · Beginner

  Perspective, from one point to three

  Perspective is not maths for its own sake — it is the entire reason a drawn box looks like it occupies space rather than sitting flat on the page. Set one horizon line and almost everything else follows from it.

  45–60 min6 steps
• Pencil · Advanced

  Human anatomy for artists

  You do not need a medical degree — you need the handful of landmarks and masses that actually change a figure's silhouette. Learn the bones you can see through the skin first, because those never move.

  1–2 hours6 steps