INTRODUCTIONPortrait drawing begins with two eyes, nose and month. However, how you draw two eyes, nose
and mouth becomes the issue. Children make portrait drawings all the time and the difference between a child's drawing and a fully realized portrait is a few fundaments. Most children draw
symbolically. They draw without looking at the person. In addition, many adults draw like children because they stopped learning to draw when they where children. So to change, the drawer needs
understand a few fundamentals that are essential to making a good portrait.
However I must add a very important observation. Practice is important too and what you practice can
train you to be good at drawing or not. Although practice is often repeating something over and over again, practice is also a method you use to learn. Some methods don't train you to see but
rather feel, both are good but seeing how things are structured has its advantages too.
I believe there is many books out there that try to explain how to draw a portrait but in
the end they fail because, the method lacks some kind of connection with what the real goals are when you are learning to draw. These goals are simple, seeing better, handling your drawing tools
skillfully and know the methods that create the kind of drawing you want.
In the following pages I will keep it simple and show the methods you need to see better, improve your
skill handling materials and provide information so you can make the drawing you want.
