This a stunning blue ball point pen portrait of the actor Matt Damon. Great art does not require special fancy tools, just a mastery that only comes with practice. I think I now love ball point pen art.

Here’s a 90 minute art demonstration by Zimou Tan. Zimou uses willow charcoal sticks to create this stunning portrait on Strathmore medium drawing paper.. Zimou prefers to use willow charcoal over vine charocoal as it is much richer and darker in value.

Paying attention to light sources is key in drawing a realistic nose. An artist must learn the rules of shading a nose’s protruding and indented features and around the nostrils and corners to create depth.

Learn how to proportionality draw a face by using vertical and horizontal lines. By paying attention to symmetry a person can learn how to draw features on a basic head shape.

Mark Crilley shows us how to draw a realistic magna style portrait. He even shows general proportion guidelines for drawing a head.