$16
per classHow to Draw a Realistic Face - Ages 8 and Up
Completed by 98 learners
Ages 8-11
Live One-Time Class
Live video meetings
Meets once
3-9 learners per class
55 min
What's included
1 live meeting
55 mins in-class hoursClass Experience
This class will teach the basic tenets of how to draw a realistic human face. I will cover the idea of proportions--the size of and distance between objects relative to one another--so that students understand how to apply the skills we practice to different types of faces. We will also discuss some varying types of features, so that students have a good idea of how to make people look different from one another. Because we will go into detail on these variations, we will only go over how to draw front-facing faces--further classes may go over other angles. The class will be structured in three parts: discussing proportions, practicing different individual features, and then drawing and shading a whole face. I will teach by showing students what I am drawing in real time; because I also want to see what they're working on, students are required to keep their cameras on throughout the whole class. While the class is about specific hard skills, I will still give students room to interpret my instructions creatively to a certain degree, since creativity is central to any art. Learners will be able to interact with each other by discussing different types of features they are familiar with, and by showing their completed drawings, if they would like to, at the end of class. Learners will not need any previous experience, but they will need a paper and pencil.
Learning Goals
Students will gain a basic understanding of what proportions are, how to draw varying types of facial features, and how to put those features together to draw a person's face.
Other Details
Supply List
A paper and a pencil with an eraser.
External Resources
Learners will not need to use any apps or websites beyond the standard Outschool tools.
Meet the teacher
Teacher expertise and credentials
Hello! I'm Lainey, a professional art teacher with a Bachelor of Arts in English with a Writing Emphasis from the University of Nevada, Reno. While I studied there, I worked for over a year as a peer tutor at the UNR Writing and Speaking Center, where I discovered my passion for teaching. Seeing learners there gain an understanding of the tools at their disposal, and become more confident as a result, led me to continue teaching after I graduated. I currently teach art classes at Arts for All Nevada, which is a local nonprofit focused on providing art classes for every age. As a result, I have a variety of experience in teaching children and teens in a range of disciplines, including drawing, painting, comics, writing, and general creative skills.
On Outschool, I teach classes on comics, drawing, painting and writing skills for a range of age groups and needs. My teaching philosophy is all about encouraging students' creativity while giving them the tools to express themselves as effectively as possible. I am also more than willing to provide writing and art tutoring services--please reach out if this is something you're interested in!
On top of teaching, I also make my own comics, including a weekly YA webcomic and various shorter comics. I'm passionate about comics as a really special and versatile storytelling medium in which words and pictures come together to communicate in a way that neither words nor images could accomplish alone. I hope to share that passion with students in my comics classes. In my drawing-only and writing-only classes, I aim to expand the skill sets of students so that they're better able to express their own creativity.
In my free time, I enjoy snuggling with my cat and playing Dungeons and Dragons, and reading lots and lots of indie comics.
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