Portraiture Demonstration

Join Christopher in this portraiture demonstration, which typically involves a step-by-step process of representing a person's likeness. 

It often begins with establishing the basic structure of the head using simple shapes and lines, then progressively adding details like features, shading, and highlights. Various techniques and approaches can be used, from loose and gestural sketching to more detailed and refined rendering.

Drawing on his unique experience as the first and only Black artist to graduate from the London Academy of Representational Art – an atelier school with traditional teaching methods – Hanson’s work explores the beauty, fascination, and complexity of Black and Brown bodies.