As a self-taught artist, are you always looking for ways that you can stop spinning your wheels and actually improve your portrait drawing? Have you spent years drawing every day, portrait after portrait and didn’t feel you were getting any...

This Christmas I was inspired to do some drawings that fit the season. I had never done Christmas artwork before, or any holiday themes work before, therefore, this was a fun learning experience. These drawings are simple to show all...

I did continue to work on my Bargue Plate 24. I continued using only vine as I finished up the main outlines of the arm....

I’ve started work on Bargue Plate 24. Its a plate I’ve wanted to copy for some time now, and I’m happy to finally get it going. I’m doing this one in charcoal and so far I have only used vine...

Updates on some progress. Most recently, I completed a part of Bargue Plate 4. Plate 4 has many ears using Nitram Charcoal. Since I was using the actual book as reference and not a blown up copy of the plate,...

I completed Bargue Plate 2: Mouths and Noses. I liked these a lot. This has 6 images, the first is a line drawing of a mouth and nose at different angles. Then next to each images is a more refined...

As I was going through the Bargue Drawing Course book again, I was reading into the first Bargue Plate 1 – 4. These have simple drawings of eyes, mouths, profiles, and ears. I tried figuring out if it’s typical to...