February 19, 2025 -   A handful of practical issues will improve your portrait work really fast. It comes from paying attention to minute details that many new artists miss. It’s fine training for your brain to understand the necessary shapes, forms, and edges of the human head, measuring and working from a basic structural model, the overall idea being to automate those skills, so that when you work to make a portrait with impact, all those skills will be ready to engage. Once you’ve learned enough about heads, refinement comes next. This is knowing what to do to make a head into a portrait of a person or character. Simply, it puts your understanding of heads to work for you when you need to capture a likeness. Paying attention to the following simple points will allow you to…