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J.C. Lyendecker was known for his Saturday Evening Post covers before he passed the torch to Norman Rockwell. Known for his incredible design sense, compositional ability, and just about everything else.

As we move to Norman Rockwell we will examine this illustrators keen shape design, tiling, color notes and edge manipulation. Remember what you learned in the first two phases as Jeff Tackles the expression and technique involved in this wonderful little head.

Joseph Clement Cole is another of Jeff’s favorite linear inkers. Know for his chaotic style Jeff will again tackle a conversion from this controlled chaos to color and tone. On top of this Jeff will be showing you how to handle a dual lighting situation. Great video tutorial, enjoy.

Charles Dana Gibson was one of the premier inker’s of his day and was know for his compositional mastery as well as expressive characters.

Jeff will tackle a down gazed model with pursed lips. He also tackles the hair in a very informative manner similar to the previous two.

Watch Jeff Lay-In and finish a small gouache sketch of this 50’s beauty. Emphasis will be placed on ideal shape design, Hair Design, and proper layering.

Possibly one of the greatest Pin Up artists of all time, this painter is great to how to idealize the female portrait. Watch as Jeff works to duplicate one of Elvgren’s quintessential female types.

In this exercise we watch as Jeff walks you through a profile head. As with the other heads Jeff will also demonstrate using the air brush to put finishing touches on these studies.

In this video tutorial Jeff will tackle a female head in profile with a dual light source and warm/cool lighting is quite a challenge.

Lyendecker is known not only as a virtuoso of design, but of expression as well. Watch Jeff tackle this wonderfully expressive character.

This lesson finds Jeff demonstrating another iconic head. Watch as Jeff explains why and what he likes so much about Frazetta as he executes this one hour gouache study.

This video lesson finds Jeff demonstrating one of Frazetta’s most iconic heads from one of his Conan the Destroyer book covers.

Frazetta is known for the “look” of his female as well as male characters. Jeff demonstrates in this video tutorial one of his favorite female heads.

When it comes to staging,power, and drama non does it better, in my opinion, than fantasy artist Frank Frazetta. This is one of Jeff’s favorites since childhood and he will walk you through painting some of his favorite iconic heads. This first one will be a Barbarian head done in around one hour.

If ask many of todays top artists who is their favorite artist’s or illustrators no doubt the name Dean Cornwell will come up. He is known for his chunky painting style and strong narrative pieces and vignette’s. In this lesson Jeff will demonstrate a middle eastern gentlemen with varied colored head wrap.

In this lesson I will again look to J.C. Lyendecker for his unique stylization of the male ear as I demonstrate this unique technique.

Using William Bouguereau as my inspiration I will demonstrate a female ear using the Warm/Cool palette.

Here is a different approach, I will use the famous illustrator J.C. Lyendecker as my inspiration for this pair of lips. Emphasis will be placed on stylization as Leyendecker really exemplifies this.

I hope you won’t tire of me using Sargent, but I will be painting a pair of lips using him as my inspiration. I will use the Warm/Cool Palette as with the others.

In this lesson I am again using one of my favorites, Rembrandt to demonstrate executing a study of the nose. The Warm/Cool palette will be utilized.

Watch as I approach a nose from one of my favorites, the unbelievable John Singer Sargent using the Warm/Cool palette.