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Beginners Guide to Portrait Painting

🧩 Build your portrait foundation with control and confidence. In this 8+ hour course, Albin Veselka shares the essential building blocks of portrait painting—from underlying structure to expressive color—so you can begin creating strong, believable faces.


You’ll learn how to:
🎨 Choose and apply surfaces, materials, and lighting setups
📐 Define head planes, value structure, and clear form
🧩 Recognize and shape key facial landmarks (eyes, nose, mouth)
🌈 Mix skin tones and harmonize color within a portrait
💡 Move from drawing to painting with a confident, principled workflow


Perfect for beginners eager to master the fundamentals—so your future portraits are built on a solid, expressive foundation. 🕗 Runtime: 8+ hours

  • Albin Veselka

    Instructor

  • Fundamental

    Difficulty
Meet your instructor

Albin Veselka

Born in 1979 in Wyoming and living most of his life in Idaho, Albin's interest in art came at about six years old. He is very grateful to his parents who were instrumental in encouraging his interest and development in art even when resources were scarce.
Albin credits the knowledgeable and student oriented faculty of the BYUI art department for giving him "the tools all representational artist must have to open the door to communicating in the visual arts". Early in his career he also received direction which helped him break into the gallery scene while he was a college student. Since then he has continued in developing and have been blessed to receive recognition and honors that have aided his progress. 

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