Today I propose one of the best drawing exercises you can do to improve your skills as portrait painters: The self-portrait. Let's face it. Portrait drawing can be scary to some. You sit down to draw a representational drawing of somebody and something goes really wrong along the way. You're not sure what happened, but you know that the drawing you just created just doesn't quite look like your mother or your boyfriend. Fortunately, this doesn't have to be case. With a bit of knowledge, practice, and few tricks used by the pros, accurate and realistic portrait drawings can be created by anyone - yes you can! It doesn't require talent to create amazing, lifelike portraits. It only requires "know how" and practice. This execise gives you the practice required to create accurate portraits, strategies for locating facial proportions, and techniques used by artists and illustrators to ensure likeness. In my portrait courses, I have always advised m
