How to Draw Expressions Like Norman Rockwell

Hey Fun Fab Drawing Club Member! Welcome to December!! Are holiday decorations, cards, cookies and the works already in motion for you? 

Now is the PERFECT TIME to take a break from all of that and do a little drawing!!

Recently I was at a local used book store and found this AMAZING coffee table book called Love & Remembrance, featuring illustrations by Norman Rockwell. I've always been in awe of his work, and thought it might be fun to see what we can learn from his extremely expressive faces.

​For today's lesson, we'll be studying six of Rockwell's illustrations of young boys. Their faces totally crack me up! As a boy mom myself, I've seen ALL of these expressions and more in my own kids!

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You'll find 2 PDFs of these reference images from my book in the classroom for today's lesson. ​

I kept things super simple supplies-wise for this lesson. I'm just using a Blackwing pencil and some cute cheapie mechanical pencils I found with colored leads, along with a little sketchbook I picked up at the dollar store. Use whatever you have on hand and love most! 

👉Ready to get started? Let's start this 1-Hour Lesson!

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In the Mood to Draw Something Else?

Were you able to join me LIVE last Thursday for Brain Stretches & Sketches?? Our little Christmas elf project was SO much fun!! Isn't he just the cutest?! 

In case you couldn't join me live, you can still have a blast with this project by watching the replay! Heads up - it's about an hour and 40 minutes, but remember you can stop and start as often as you like! 

​MORE Project Ideas for You!

If you didn't get to do any lessons last month, you missed a BIG ONE! We did three sexy figure drawing sketches to go along with the sexy/sultry expression we learned not too long ago! They were SO much fun, and can be found in your Latest Lessons for November, or in the Expression Sketchin' Classroom.

If you enjoyed the above lessons already, there are lots of other figure and sexy face drawing project ideas for you to check out HERE.

If you've been thinking of illustrating your own holiday cards but have no idea how to go about that or how the tech piece of a project like that might work to digitize your design and get the cards printed, I have the PERFECT lesson for you!!

Last month, we did holiday art inspired by Anne Keenan Higgens during Brain Stretches & Sketches and I took you step-by-step through how to take a photo, upload it to my favorite FREE drag-and-drop design program (Canva), and how to upload that design to VistaPrint! You should totally check it out! And remember- if you don't send holiday cards, you could do a variation of this project to print a bulk order of birthday cards to send to friends and family throughout the year, or any other holiday or occasion you send cards out for! 

If none of these ideas float your boat right now - definitely head over to the Visual Index so you can scroll through all the project images to find exactly what you've been looking for! ​

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