Welcome to this course on how to draw realistic pencil portraits for beginners.

By the end of this course, you'll understand the basics of realistic shading, and how to draw the basic facial features, and if you follow along with the step-by-step lessons, you will have drawn your very own realistic portrait from beginning to end.

We'll start off by learning the basics of realistic shading. You'll discover how to create smooth shadows and tones and how to assemble them together to create 3-dimensional forms.

Then we'll apply what we've learned to draw each of the facial features. You'll see exactly how to draw and shade the eyes, nose, mouth, and hair in complete detail.

Once you know to draw the features, we'll put it all together in a full portrait drawing. You'll see how to easily draw an accurate lay-in of the face. Then we'll render each of the features until the portrait is complete.

You'll be able to see the entire process unfold step-by-step and follow along with each stroke.

This course was designed to make the topic of portrait drawing fun and approachable even for a complete beginner. So I hope you're ready to learn and I'll see you on the inside.