New Masters Academy – Drawing the Portrait in the Russian Style

In this course, Russian academic drawing expert Iliya Mirochnik will teach you the portrait drawing approach taught at the Repin Academic Institute of Fine Arts (former Saint Petersburg Imperial Academy of Arts) in a nearly unchanged form for over 250 years. This course builds on Fundamentals of Observational Drawing and the Anatomy of the Head & Neck and now applies the information to a living, breathing, model. You will learn how to work but with line and tone over paper stretched on canvas frame first to draw more neutral head and neck and then to more challenging portrait with hands project.