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Here is the continuation in part 2: • Photorealistic drawing is not an art... If you really want to learn how to draw portraits, you should watch these videos: Frontal portrait: • Portrait drawing frontal scheme Portrait in profile: • Portrait drawing scheme profile Portrait in half profile: • Portrait drawing scheme half profile Portrait, anatomical aspects: • Perspective and anatomical aspects... Child/adult portrait: • Difference between child and adult portrait This video is intended to explain why it is not artistically valuable to simply copy something 1:1 from a photo, or to imitate it and possibly even smudge the pencil to create the appropriate tones and gradients. This type of implementation has nothing to do with drawing. The pencil drawing tool is being used for a purpose other than its actual purpose. The pencil is not a painting tool. There are more suitable materials for that. The approach is also stupid and requires neither special intellectual nor artistic skills. You are only mechanically simulating what a stupid machine, such as a photocopier, would do. You transfer the corresponding tonal values from one sheet of paper to another, point by point, 1:1. You don't really know what you're copying, how the shape should be designed, how the lighting conditions should be handled, etc. It's actually like painting by numbers, only without numbers. A nice little circus trick, but far from art. The real genius of drawing lies in an emotional, simple and yet naturalistic implementation with lines. Using simple means, the artist draws (i.e. gives the viewer signs) something that the viewer is supposed to interpret. The viewer is not only presented with the flat, two-dimensional image seen in the photo, but also with the emotionality and the actual character of the motif. That's why portraits drawn from nature will always look better and have a more authentic effect than those copied from a photo. Here the eye is presented with a finished two-dimensional view, while the eye has to overcome stretches when looking at reality in space and both the viewer and the model can change the point of view and pose equally. Here is the continuation in Part 2: • Photorealistic drawing is not art...