Portrait Academy for Procreate
Finally Draw PortraitsPeople Actually Recognize.
- 25hHD video
- 43lessons
- 23K+community
- Alllevels
Every face has a handful of features that make it recognizable. Learn to spot and draw those, and portraits start looking like the person: kids, grandparents, or a favorite face. You'll feel steadier showing your work.
Portraits get easier with a clear method
Portrait skill isn't only trial and error. Without a method, you can spend months and still get faces that look off, and not quite like the person.
The tracing and drafting formula gives you a repeatable way to land facial proportions, so likeness is less of a guessing game.
You'll get better at spotting the few details that make each face unique, avoid common mistakes, and feel ready to share portraits.
Inside Portrait Academy
With over 25 hours of video, Portrait Academy is on average 7× longer than most other courses. Across 40+ lessons, you will:
Stop making portraits that look off
Learn facial proportions and measurements that separate shaky drawings from portraits that read correctly. Eyes sit near the halfway point. Ears align with eyebrows and nose. Those measurements make faces look right.
Draw any age, any person
From wrinkled grandparents to smooth baby faces, learn how skin changes, where wrinkles form, how features shift with age, and why kids' proportions differ from adults.
Fix your biggest portrait mistakes
Understand why a portrait doesn't look like the person. Nose too small? Lips too thin? Learn to measure the features that create likeness.
Develop a portrait look that feels like yours
Move past only copying photos. Stylize hair, clothes, and background while keeping face measurements accurate. That's the formula.
Proportions first, likeness second, style third
We start from the beginning and work toward finished portrait illustration. You'll leave ready to tackle portraits for yourself or clients.
Week 1
Trace your first portrait. Learn where every feature should sit.
Month 1
Hold facial proportions by memory. Start adding your own stylistic choices.
Today
Download face templates and proportion guides. Start lesson one.
Week 2
Draw from a reference photo without tracing. Capture basic likeness.
Month 2
Draw portraits of any age, babies to grandparents, that people recognize.
Today
Download face templates and proportion guides. Start lesson one.
Week 1
Trace your first portrait. Learn where every feature should sit.
Week 2
Draw from a reference photo without tracing. Capture basic likeness.
Month 1
Hold facial proportions by memory. Start adding your own stylistic choices.
Month 2
Draw portraits of any age, babies to grandparents, that people recognize.
Your mentors at Twotap
Meet the Twotap teaching approach
Twotap courses are built by working illustrators who've shipped commercial work for brands like Louis Vuitton, Tiffany & Co., and Sephora, and who still teach every step as if you've never opened Procreate.
We don't skip steps or hide behind timelapses. You get the why behind decisions, so you can stop needing tutorials and start trusting your own eye.
Whether you have thirty minutes a day or a quiet weekend, we designed every lesson to feel attainable, patient, clear, and genuinely beginner-friendly.
Speaking at an Apple Store event about Procreate techniques
Across 43 lessons, you'll learn how to
Whether you're new or already drawing, this course moves you from following tutorials to drawing portraits on your own.
Master Procreate's tools and features specifically for portrait work.
Draw faces at every age: younger, middle-aged and older male and female portraits.
Capture detailed features: eyes, eyebrows, noses, mouths and hair for faces at all ages.
Choose the right brushes for each stage of your projects.
Control your line work: apply the perfect stroke pressure and line tracing.
See light like an artist: deepen your understanding of light and shading.
Work with more detail, less gear, and less mess
Decent brushes, watercolors, and quality paper can cost a couple hundred dollars. Add a high-detail scanner and a capable computer and you've spent well over $1000 before you start painting.
Before we switched, we needed a large workspace that took up half a room. Now all we need is an iPad and an Apple Pencil.
With Procreate you don't need extra scanners or drawing tablets. Create wherever you are, and when you're done, close the iPad. No cleanup.
Bonus artist package included (worth $100+)
Brushes and resources we use on commercial work for Louis Vuitton, Tiffany & Co, and Sephora. Yours to keep with lifetime access.
Free Bonus #1
10 custom portrait brushes
The brushes we reach for in portrait work, made for skin, hair, line work, and detail.
Free Bonus #2
5 skin-tone colour swatches
Ready-made palettes of realistic skin tones so you can start painting believable faces right away.
Free Bonus #3
2024 freebie: makeup brushes
A set of makeup brushes plus a face template to get you started faster.
Free Bonus #4
2025 freebie: face-grid stamp brushes
Face-grid stamp brushes and pose reference resources to speed up your drafting and get proportions right.
Free Bonus #5
35+ source files & templates
Procreate source files for the lessons. Open each portrait's layers to learn faster and find ideas.
Free Bonus #6
6 bonus lessons
Extra lessons on botanical elements, couple illustrations, and practical business topics: pricing, finding clients, and building a portrait portfolio.
Free Bonus #7
Lifetime updates
Procreate keeps changing and so does this course. Future lessons and brushes we add stay included.
Free Bonus #8
Private Twotap community
Lifetime membership to our private Facebook community of 23,000+ artists. Post work and get feedback from Twotap, the team, and fellow students.
11 modules, 43 lessons, 25 hours
Open any module for the full lesson list. Every lesson is narrated in English, with English subtitles and auto-translated subtitles in 30+ languages.
Meet the instructors, download the files, and join the private artists community.
1.1 Welcome to the course4:04
1.2 Download the files + 🌟 2024 FREEBIE: Makeup Brushes- 1.3 Facebook group
Line-control techniques for steadier strokes, plus the brushes used throughout the course.
2.1 Brushes used in this course6:20
2.2 Line controlling techniques10:30
2.3 ✍️ Line drawing exercise25:03
Draw every part of the face using both drafting and tracing, outline, eyebrows, eyes, nose, mouth, smiling mouth, and men's and women's hair, then ink the whole face.
3.1 ✍️ Draft: Facial outline34:42
3.2 ✍️ Trace: Facial outline8:56
3.3 ✍️ Draft: Eyebrows24:21
3.4 ✍️ Trace: Eyebrows24:47
3.5 ✍️ Draft: Eyes27:46
3.6 ✍️ Trace: Eyes28:49
3.7 ✍️ Draft: Nose12:25
3.8 ✍️ Trace: Nose20:06
3.9 ✍️ Draft: Mouth15:16
3.10 ✍️ Trace: Mouth23:10
3.11 ✍️ Draft: Smiling mouth36:05
3.12 ✍️ Trace: Smiling mouth28:18
3.13 ✍️ Draft: Women's hair39:19
3.14 ✍️ Trace: Women's hair2:27:10
3.15 ✍️ Draft: Men's hair31:20
3.16 ✍️ Trace: Men's hair1:09:00
3.17 ✍️ Inking: Whole face and hair56:39
Draw a full woman portrait from start to finish, trace, ink and colour.
4.1 ✍️ Trace / Inking1:20:05
4.2 ✍️ Coloring44:06
Draw a full man portrait from start to finish, trace, ink and colour.
5.1 ✍️ Trace / Inking1:06:35
5.2 ✍️ Coloring1:06:13
Capture the features and skin of an older woman, trace, ink and colour a senior portrait.
6.1 ✍️ Trace / Inking46:21
6.2 ✍️ Coloring45:33
Draw an older man, beard, glasses and aged skin, trace, ink and colour.
7.1 ✍️ Trace / Inking1:03:34
7.2 ✍️ Coloring1:03:50
Draw a young boy, learn how children's proportions differ from adults, trace, ink and colour.
8.1 ✍️ Trace / Inking21:56
8.2 ✍️ Coloring28:21
Draw a young girl with braided hair, trace, ink and colour a complete child portrait.
9.1 ✍️ Trace / Inking45:12
9.2 ✍️ Coloring37:48
Add botanical elements and couple illustrations, then learn how to find clients, price work, and build a portfolio.
10.1 ⭐️ Bonus 1: Botanical elements55:07
10.2 ⭐️ Bonus 2: Decorate portraits15:08
10.3 ⭐️ Bonus 3: Couple illustration22:29- 10.4 ⭐️ How to target groups of customers for portrait illustration
- 10.5 ⭐️ How to calculate your rates / pricing
- 10.6 ⭐️ Checklist for creating a portfolio
Bring everything together in a 2026 project: sketch and colour a semi-realistic Black girl portrait.
11.1 ✍️ Sketch43:27
11.2 ✍️ Coloring46:04
Take two lessons from this course, free
Real lessons from the course, not a trailer. They open in your Twotap library and stay yours.
- Line Controlling Techniques10:30 · Full lesson, yours forever
- Tracing EyebrowsFull lesson, yours forever
11 min of teaching · from the $179 course, at no cost
30-Day Instant Refund
If you follow the process and it isn't the right fit, we offer a 30-day refund. Take the lessons, even twice, and if you don't love it, contact us for a full refund. No questions asked.
Lifetime access and updates- Finish with 7 semi-realistic portraits of your own
- Bonus lesson on couple illustration
- 30-day money back guarantee
Procreate Portrait Academy
11 Modules, 43 Lessons, 25 Hours of in-depth video lectures
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FAQs
Common questions about this course and other Twotap courses.
No. We start from the very beginning and never assume you've drawn before. If you can hold an Apple Pencil and have Procreate on your iPad, you can follow along.
Any iPad from 2018 onward runs Procreate well. You don't need the newest model, a solid Apple Pencil, compatible iPad is enough.
Yes, Procreate works best with a pressure-sensitive Apple Pencil (1st Gen, 2nd Gen, or Pro). The basic USB-C Pencil is less ideal for line weight and opacity.
The videos total about 25 hours. Most Twotap students spend a bit longer drawing along, and that's the point. Lifetime access means you can go at your own pace. A lot of people fit this into about 30 minutes a day.
You can watch on any device with a browser, but you'll want your iPad open to draw along. Many students watch a step, pause, then paint, or use a second screen for the video.
You're not alone. Join the private Twotap community on Facebook to ask questions and share progress, students and our team are active there. You can also email support@twotap.art anytime.
No. This is a one-time purchase with lifetime access. Buy once, revisit forever, including updates we add to the course.
Yes. We offer a 30-day money-back guarantee. If it isn't the right fit, reach out to support@twotap.art within 30 days and we'll take care of a full refund.
Still have questions?
We're happy to help, whether it's a tech hiccup, a sizing question, or you're just not sure which Twotap course fits. Reach out anytime.
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