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Male Portrait Facial Hair Charcoal Toned Paper by Liz Harris

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Indicating Facial Hair

🧔 Discover how to paint facial hair without painting every strand. In this 6-hour demo, Liz Harris guides you through creating convincing beards, mustaches, and goatees using smart design, value shifts, and edge control—not tedious detail work. 

You’ll learn how to:
🎨 Use shape, value, and edge instead of drawing every hair individually
🔍 Distinguish between dense, bushy beards and shorter stubble where skin shows through
🖌️ Integrate facial hair into a portrait so it reads naturally and supports likeness
📏 Apply a streamlined workflow that gets you results faster and with more clarity

Ideal for portrait artists who want to elevate texture and realism in skin and hair—especially when working in oils, charcoal, or mixed media.

  • Liz Harris

    Instructor

  • Advanced

    Difficulty
Meet your instructor

Liz Harris

Liz Harris can show you how to pick up the speed, and become a competitive artist, whether or not you have had the leisure to focus solely on art in your early years. She has the key to show you how to practice specific skills for targeted improvement and will cover the gaps left in other art curricula.
She has traveled the world in search of the work of the masters and has spent her life learning and practicing.

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