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Color portrait drawing practice on plaster head

Nobody starts out good at color portraits! When I was little I started with mix and match How to Draw A Character books. This was just tracing different eyes or hair to make the character I wanted. I also had a bunch of just how to draw books that were super basic like draw a circle and then add this line and this till you've drawn the whole thing. Then I sight drew comic book characters I loved. Gen 13 by J. Scott Campbell @jscottcampbellart and Fathom by Michael Turner were my favs. And by now it's high-school and I'm drawing some black and gray graphite portraits but still not really into full on color portraits yet. Then in college I finally started painting color portraits. But I seriously had to do a lot of work on understanding lighting and form. So by the time I started tattooing color portraits, I had a lot to lean on that I had intuitively built up. So then I started obsessing about ink. Point is, I never started good and the education continues and I'm fine with that because I love art and tattoos. Wonder what the next obsession is gonna be? #tattooeducation #candidcolorcoach #tattooartistjourney #tattoomentor #femaletattooartist

A Illustrative portraits piece by Liz Cook at Liz Cook l Tattooer Burnout Coach, posted on May 22, 2026.

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