Realistic Fur

This is my newest, most extensive tutorial to date. You’ll learn everything I know about drawing realistic fur. It currently includes 21 lessons with over 5 hours of content with more to come! Reference photos and photos of my finished drawings are included. Plus, you’ll get additional high quality references photos to work from.

Realistic Drawing with Light, Texture, and Contrast

This tutorial will teach you the most important aspects of realistic drawing. I highly recommend you start with this one. The techniques and concepts learned here will will get you prepared for all the other tutorials.

Photo from the live drawing workshop “Drawing with Light, Texture, and Contrast”. In this example, I’m explaining the areas of light and shadow on a portrait.

Realistic Portrait

You follow along at your own pace and complete this realistic portrait. I’ll take you step by step through many different ways of getting the proportions down on the paper accurately, all the way to putting on the finishing touches to make the eyes sparkle. The techniques you learn here will make all your future portraits “pop”.

Realistic Hair

This tutorial contains 9 lessons and nearly 3 hours of videos.You’ll start off watching and following along as I demonstrate the basic technique of creating realistic hair. There are step-by-step lessons which contain PDFs of not only the reference photos, but also of my finished drawings.

Realistic Eye

Watch and follow along as I give detailed explanations of all the techniques necessary for you to complete this drawing using only the General’s 9xxb Graphite pencil, along with my blending techniques. In case you didn’t know, this special pencil allows you to get extremely dark values, without the dreaded graphite shine.

Trompe L’oeil Demo

This is the kind of work I’m most known
for, and now you can get a ringside seat to watch me demonstrate and explain how I render everything from the smooth, dark background to the final touches on the masking tape.