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Emotive Portraits

🎨 Bring personality to your charcoal portraits. In this 4+‑hour demonstration, Mostafa Keyhani guides you through creating a masterful self‑portrait, focusing on the looseness of the drawing that translates into greater personality within the subject. You'll explore various types of charcoal and techniques to infuse your work with expressive energy. 

You’ll learn how to:

  • ✏️ Use different types of charcoal to achieve varied textures and depths

  • 🎭 Capture the essence of your subject through expressive mark‑making

  • 🖌️ Balance detail with abstraction to convey personality and emotion

  • 🧠 Develop a workflow that emphasizes spontaneity without sacrificing structure

Ideal for artists looking to infuse their portraits with life and character, moving beyond mere likeness to convey the subject's inner world. 🕒 Runtime: 4 hours

  • Mostafa Keyhani

    Instructor

  • Fundamental

    Difficulty
Meet your instructor

Mostafa Keyhani

Mostafa's work is essentially in be field of modern impressionism. Light plays an important role in his work, as well as movement of colors. His work is about capturing the essence of certain light through effortless brush strokes and movements. He is known for his use of thick sculptural paint and strong, spontaneous brush work.
He continues to work with subject matters that best capture the essence of abstract or modern Impressionism.

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