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My project for course: Vibrant Portrait Drawing with Colored Pencils
by Gabriela Niko @gabrielaniko
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There are many sources to find reference photos for your drawings. My favorite ways are Pinterest and taking my own photos.
I made a few quick sketches like this one to pick my favorite size, proportions and expression. These are often subtle nuances but quick sketches are great exercise to warm up and practice portrait drawing.
You can improve your drawing throughout the portrait creation process. If you don't press the colored pencil too hard, you'll be able to erase it. Don't focus too much on it though. It's easy to fall into the trap of constantly improving one piece. Instead, I recommend creating more quick studies and portraits.
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graphitedebris
It looks so warm and beautiful! Love your style! ❤︎
gabrielaniko
Teacher PlusThank you so much ☺️ @graphitedebris
ale_ingrassia
Absolutely excellent! I'm glad you did the colored pencils course!
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gabrielaniko
Teacher PlusThank you @ale_ingrassia ! I'm glad too 🤗 Colored pencils are so fun and give many opportunities!
katarzyna_brodzinska
I love your coloredpensil artwork ❤️❤️❤️
dautojr19
wonderful teacher, I'm from Brazil and also your student at Doméstika 🙏🙏
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suisho22
awesome and beautiful!
renaice
grateful for an educational course, which taught me to see things in a new way. Loved Gabriela's unique ability to teach in a simple and understandable way.
katarzyna_maria_kmiecik
Teacher PlusAwesome, Gaby! I love your style!
hamidart
extraordinary
ritamolino
Hi Graciela, I bought your course because I found it very interesting, but I'm Spanish and I thought it could be translated. Is there a way to do it? Thank you for everything and I love your style I would love to learn with you 😁👏
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leni20n
Uh, I usually draw and when you do it I marvel at how you choose the base color, from which you add shadows and other colors that match that initial one with which you make the lines, in this case yellow is perfect... I don't know , I suppose that now in the second step of your color theories you will explain it, but I am dying to know how you give so much naturalness to your portraits using apparently opposite colors. Thank you!
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