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Learn to Sketch Portraits with Ed Hall
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Learn how to draw a face with renowned cartoonist, Ed Hall. Follow along with the steps as Ed teaches you how to create a freehand sketch of a face from life or a photograph.

While photorealist portraiture emphasises fine surface detail, the sketched portrait values a combination of line and tone, with contour and cross contour describing form, and expressive mark-making encouraged. Drawing freehand brings your portraits to life.

You can copy Ed's lesson exactly, or use it to guide you as you draw a portrait from your own favorite photograph.

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