Portrait Painting for Beginners With Joseph Todorovich

Release date:2020

Author:Joseph Todorovich

Skill level:Beginner

Language:English

Exercise files:Yes

Table of Contents

1. Materials, Supports, Painting Basics With Joseph Todorovitch

If you are interested in learning how to paint the portrait in oils, you will need to know your materials from which brushes to buy, and how mediums work, to how to stretch your own canvases and prepare your wood panels. Learn how to make your first brush strokes, how to mix a value scale, and how to set yourself for success as a painter.

2. Grisaille Portrait Exercises With Joseph Todorovitch

Before learning how to paint with full color palettes, artists for centuries have begun using only a mixture of black and white paint known as grisaille. Learn how to use this excellent training approach to help you learn how to mix and apply paint, simplify your subject and draw with paint, design posterize shapes for value clarity, and how to make form read correctly, all without color!

3. Color Mixing Basics With Joseph Todorovitch

Learn the most essential information about color theory and mixing you need to paint figures and portraits. You will learn how to mix colors to achieve proper value and temperature as well as the famous Anders Zorn palette, which is a useful palette for painting people.

4. Zorn Palette Painting Exercises With Joseph Todorovitch

How do value design and color design work together in a portrait? What is color temperature and how do you apply it? How do you keep your paintings from getting muddy, or unclear? As you did before in the grisaille lesson, here you will do a 4-up painting thumbnail assignment as well as a longer portrait, applying concepts such as contrast, posterization, form, edge and brushwork and the focal point and first read.

5. Long Pose Portrait Demo With Joseph Todorovitch

Joseph will share his portrait painting process in a long-form demo from the live model. Building upon all of the previous lessons, Joseph will now attempt to create a more finished work, the way he would develop his own gallery pieces from his home studio. The first portion of this demonstration includes instruction in real time whereas the latter portion is time-lapsed with music underneath, which allows Joseph to focus on his work without the added burden of speaking.

6. 2-Hour Portrait Assignment: Amanda With Joseph Todorovitch

So far you have learned the concepts, and basics of painting the portrait, it’s time to start to put it into practice with a series of timed portrait paintings, each with a new model. In this session, Joseph paints a two-hour oil portrait from life from our model Amanda, with a special focus on drawing accuracy and value design. You can follow along with Joseph using the reference images provided.

7. 2-Hour Portrait Assignment: Margaret With Joseph Todorovitch

Paint a two-hour oil study with our model Magaret. After a review lecture on color theory and mixing with Joseph, you will begin your portrait by using our provided reference images and following along with Joseph’s process. The focus of this portrait is solid color choices and how those colors relate to value design. This lesson included a downloadable PDF on color mixing.

8. 2-Hour Portrait Assignment: Jeff With Joseph Todorovitch

Paint a two-hour oil study with our model Jeff. This time, you have the option to paint the same pose as Joseph with the provided reference and go through the entire exercise following along stroke for stroke, or challenge yourself to one of the other images and try to follow along with the process reference to the demonstration video. The focus for this session is on establishing solid structure and turning the form with light.

9. 2-Hour Portrait Assignment: Tracey & Vanna With Joseph Todorovitch

Paint a two-hour oil study with our model Vanna (following along as Joseph paints another model, Tracey). With more painting experience under your belt, you will begin to focus on getting further in the allotting two hours, including choosing an area of the painting for your first read. This focal point, will help you control your viewer’s experience and as your proceed through this course you will build greater and greater confidence.

10. 2-Hour Portrait Assignment: Ryder & Dorian With Joseph Todorovitch

Paint a two-hour oil study with our model Dorian (following along as Joseph paints another model, Ryder). You will focus on developing your focal point with more resolve than the rest of the painting. This is a good opportunity to try a variety of brushstrokes and to get more experience pacing yourself throughout the timed assignment.

11. 2-Hour Portrait Assignment: Mather With Joseph Todorovitch

In this session you will do a two-hour oil painting with our model Mather. You have the option of painting the same post as Joseph, following along with the video demonstration stroke-for-stroke or you can choose your own pose and reference Joseph’s demonstration as you go. Mather has a beautiful color to her hair, which will provide a new challenge for you to proper mix and balance.

12. 2-Hour Portrait Assignment: Amir & Brett With Joseph Todorovitch

In this session you will do a two-hour oil painting with our model Brett (following along as Joseph paints another model, Amir). If you choose to paint Amir, you’ll be challenged to work dark against a light background. Focus on getting as far as you can within the two hour time limit but also in being experimental with your approach. Don’t be afraid to take risks!

13. 2-Hour Portrait Assignment: Ariel With Joseph Todorovitch

Paint a two-hour oil study with our model Ariel. In Joseph’s demo this time he will begin more expressively and loosely, relying less on drawing and more on big brushwork. You have the option of painting the same post as Joseph, following along with the video demonstration stroke-for-stroke or you can choose your own pose and reference Joseph’s demonstration as you go. Our references include simple more neutral poses of Ariel as well as some expression images. If you want an extra challenge try to capture one of the expressions withing your two hour time limit!

14. Final 4-Hour Portrait Assignment: Yoni With Joseph Todorovitch

In this final session, you will do a painting with our model Yoni. For the last nine poses you have limited yourself to only two hours for each portrait. This time set your timer to a full four hours and see how far you can develop your painting. Again, you have the choice to follow along with Joseph stroke for stroke or to choose a different pose. Remember to bring your resolve/rendering up in one major area at a time and try to mentally plan your strategy before beginning!

01. Materials, Supports, Painting Basics 01. Josephs Introduction 02. Artist Introduction 03. Brushes & Palette Knives 04. Oil Paints 05. Painting Surface 06. Mediums 07. Fat Over Lean 08. Varnishes 09. How to Create a Wash 10. How to Draw in Paint 11. How to mix a value scale 12. Basic Paint Application 13. Paint Application Review 14. How to Stretch a Canvas 15. How to Prepare a Panel 16. How to Clean Your Brushes 17. Lesson Assignment

02. Grisaille Portrait Exercises 01. Josephs Introduction 02. Greyscale Demo Lay-in 03. Greyscale Demo Posterization 04. Greyscale Demo Transition Planes 05. Greyscale Demo Turn the Forms 06. Greyscale Demo Final 07. Heather Greyscale Timelapse Demonstration 08. 4-Up Greyscale Demo Aycil 09. 4-Up Greyscale Demo Mark 10. 4-Up Greyscale Demo Angelique 11. 4-Up Greyscale Demo Themie 12. Jonny Upshot Greyscale Demo Lay-in 13. Jonny Drawing Refinement 14. Jonny Block-in 15. Jonny Refinement 16. Lesson Assignment

03. Color Mixing Basics 01. Joseph Introduction 02. Color Lecture (Take Notes!) 03. Color Mixing Basics 04. Color Wheel Demonstration 05. Lesson Assignment

04. Zorn Palette Painting Exercises 01. Josephs Introduction 02. Kate Color Demo Lay-in 03. Kate Blocking in the Light Value 04. Kate Shadow Side & Hair 05. Kate Full Coverage 06. Kate Resolve 07. 4-Up Color Demo Amy 08. 4-Up Color Demo Lamonte 09. 4-Up Color Demo Jennifer 10. 4-Up Color Demo Serge 11. Josephs Niece Demo (No Reference) 12. Josephs Niece Full Coverage 13. Josephs Niece Refining Shapes 14. Josephs Niece Transitioning Planes 15. Josephs Niece Final Resolve 16. Josephs Son Lay-in (No Reference) 17. Josephs Son Full Coverage 18. Josephs Son Edge Work 19. Josephs Son Final Resolve 20. Video Assignment

05. Long Pose Portrait Demo 01. Joseph Introduction 02. Live Model Long Demo 03. Timelapse Part 1 04. Timelapse Part 2 05. Lesson Assignment

06. 2-Hour Portrait Assignment Amanda 01. Joseph Introduction 02. Amanda Live Demo Lay-in 03. Full Coverage 04. Edges & Transitions 05. Lesson Assignment

07. 2-Hour Portrait Assignment Margaret 01. Joseph Introduction 02. Color Theory Review 03. Margaret Lay-in 04. Drawing and Shadow Side 05. Establishing the Background 06. Light Side & Local Color 07. Resolve 08. Lesson Assignment

08. 2-Hour Portrait Assignment Jeff 01. Josephs Introduction 02. Jeff Lay-in 03. Poster Block-in 04. Edges & Transitions 05. Resolving an Area 06. Final Resolve 07. Lesson Assignment

09. 2-Hour Portrait Assignment Tracey & Vanna 01. Josephs Introduction 02. Lay-in 03. Refining the Drawing 04. Shadow & Light Side 05. Major Edges & Transitions 06. Hilights & Resolve 07. Final Resolve 08. Lesson Assignment

10. 2-Hour Portrait Assignment Ryder & Dorian 01. Josephs Introduction 02. Ryder Lay-in 03. Light & Shadow Colors 04. Full Coverage 05. Refining 06. Resolve 07. Lesson Assignment

11. 2-Hour Portrait Assignment Mather 01. Joseph Introduction 02. Mather Lay-in 03. Hair, Light & Shadow Side 04. Edges & Transitions 05. Resolve 06. Lesson Assignment

12. 2-Hour Portrait Assignment Amir & Brett 01. Josephs Introduction 02. Lay-in 03. Drawing & Block-in 04. Full Coverage & Shapes 05. Developing a Focal Point 06. Resolve 07. Lesson Assignment

13. 2-Hour Portrait Assignment Ariel 01. Josephs Introduction 02. Loose Rough-in 03. Drawing with Color 04. Choosing Areas of Interest 05. Selective Resolve 06. Lesson Assignment

14. Final 4-Hour Portrait Assignment Yoni 01. Josephs Introduction 02. Initial Lay-in 03. Careful Structural Drawing 04. Shadow Shapes 05. Light & Shadow Sides 06. End of First Session 07. Session 2, Retouching and Resuming 08. Resolving 09. Developing a Focal Point 10. Final Touches 11. Lesson Assignment

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