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Lucas advances onward with his piece, working on foreground and background elements.

Lucas continues his progress on the final piece.

Lucas begins to move into the background elements in this lesson, tying the piece together with his color palette as he renders the secondary elements.

In this lesson, Lucas continues his progress on his final painting, bringing up the main figure to a more finished state.

Join Lucas in his progress as he continues to work on his final illustration, and watch as he slowly beings to work in opaque paints and lock down his focal point.

Follow along as Lucas begins his final painting for his illustration, transferring the image on to his work surface and blocking in the piece with stains.

In this lesson, students will learn the importance of color and tonal comps. Students will work to understand color harmonies, and how to choose the best color theme/palette to best fit the mood of their piece and fulfill the directives of their assignment.

Watch as Lucas fills in the details and brings his sketch up to a finalized drawing. Learn the importance of "solving the visual problems" in the drawing p

With the assignment you chose in the previous lesson, follow along as Lucas demonstrates how he brings up his rough sketch. Learn how "detailed" your rough sketches should be, and why this phase is important to art directors.

In this lesson, students will choose one of several "assignments", and watch as Lucas begins his preliminary thumbnail sketches for his chosen assignment.

Learn how to approach this subtle and inherently asymmetrical expression in this lesson.

Learn to blend anger and surprise to capture this interesting, sometimes subtle emotion.

Learn how to evoke the emotion of anger through an in-depth knowledge of musculature and by utilizing hard, angular shapes.

This lesson will help you understand how to draw the features in a saddened expression, ranging from mild expressions to more extreme facial expressions.

Learn which muscles and features to play up and accentuate when drawing this complex emotion.

This lesson will teach you the importance that the eyes and forehead play when capturing the emotion of surprise, as well as how to approach these features in your drawings.

This lesson will teach you how to capture the expression of "happiness" by understanding the muscles that control the face, as well as breaking down the features into geometric shapes to help simplify an otherwise complex expression.

Join Lucas as he shows you how to understand and capture the complex forms of the ear.

This lesson will help you understand, study, and memorize the planes of the lips and the form of the mouth.

This lesson will teach you the anatomy of the nose. You will learn how to identify the distinctive planes of the nose and it's construction, in order to understand drawing it from various angles

In this lesson you will learn the construction of the eye, as well as how to design the eye to enhance the overall aesthetic of your drawing.

In this lesson, you will learn how to deviate from your reference and alter your gestural paintings to represent not just what you see, but what you wish you saw, as Jeff brings the piece to a finish.