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Portrait Requisites

🔍 Get your portrait foundation solid. In this beginner-to-fundamental portrait drawing demo, Josh Clare walks you through the core building blocks of portraiture—value, form, structure, and lighting—to help you draw confidently from life or reference.


You’ll learn how to:

  • 📐 Lay in the major planes of the face so your portrait has structure and weight

  • 🎨 Build a strong value foundation — start with mid-tones, push your darks, and find your lights

  • 💡 Use simple lighting setups to reinforce form and create depth


Perfect for artists who want to strengthen their portrait fundamentals and build a reliable, repeatable process for future figure or portrait work. Runtime: 2+ hours

  • Josh Clare

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  • Fundamental

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Meet your instructor

Josh Clare

Josh Clare grew up drawing and was rarely without a pencil and paper, but it wasn’t until he began studying art at BYU-Idaho that he began painting. That first oil painting class included a trip to the galleries in Jackson Hole (his first visit to an art gallery or museum) and completely changed the course of his life.
Josh has been supporting himself and his family with art since 2007 after graduation and he thanks God every day for that remarkable blessing. He figures that if he can paint all day, every day, for the next 20 years, eventually he’ll paint something pretty decent.

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