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Four practical tools to simplify your references, check proportions and spot mistakes before they become problems.
Pro Artist with 25 Years’ Experience in Charcoal & Pencil
Return to Drawing After Years Away Master Proportions and Likeness - No Grid Create Portraits That Make You Proud
A 6-month mentorship with daily personalised video feedback, so you know exactly what to work on, fix mistakes faster, and make real progress.
Learn the skills that prove years away doesn't mean it’s too late.
Turning a lifelong passion into real skill and confidence.
“If you want an experienced, systematic, polite, patient man who REALLY cares and sees you, then Adam is the person to work with! No doubt — 10 out of 10!”
“It’s official, I’m opening my first exhibition! That truly is a big win.”
STINE
“I was going to quit drawing as I had been stuck for so long. This program changed that.”
“I’ve decided to turn pet and owner portraits into my own small business. I wouldn’t have done this without the program.”
SATOSHI
“The personalised video feedback is invaluable. Adam is an exceptional teacher, patient, approachable, and always willing to share his knowledge. The program has transformed my artistic journey and mindset. I’m so glad I found him and I wholeheartedly recommend working with Adam.”
SABINE
Everything you’ll learn about proportions, likeness, and knowing what to fix comes from a lifetime of portrait drawing and creating art.
25+
Years Drawing
1,000s
of Portraits Created
18
Years Working Professionally
The Early Days
From selling small drawings at school for pocket money at 12 to opening my own tattoo studio at 19, art went from something I loved doing to the career I’d always wanted.
I spent the next 18 years specialising in portraits, alongside drawing commissions for weddings, memorials and family memories. By my 20s, I’d created my dream job around making art.
From Hyperrealism to My Own Style
For 20 years, I created hyperrealistic portraits using the grid method. But eventually, I felt trapped and completely reliant on it. Despite my experience, I felt like I was cheating — like a fraud.
So I focused on what the grid had never taught me — the fundamentals. Learning a structural approach lit a fire under me that I’d never felt with the grid. And, to my surprise, it also gave me the skills to develop my own style.
Passing It On
After building a life around my art, I turned my attention to artists who’d put drawing on hold for years because of life, work and family — helping them become the artists they’d always wanted to be.
I’m sharing what I’ve learned from 25+ years of creating portraits, helping you avoid years of trial and error, recognise what needs fixing sooner, and be truly proud of what you create.
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Everything You Get Inside
The training, tools and personal support included in your 6-month portrait mentorship.
Lifetime Access
Complete Step-by-Step Portrait Training
Follow the complete portrait drawing process with clear lessons and real-time draw-along demonstrations.
6 Months of Personal Feedback
Personalised Video Reviews
Send me your drawings and receive personal video feedback, with corrections drawn directly over your work.
6 Months of Live Support
Weekly Live Drawing & Feedback Calls
Join me live every week to ask questions, get feedback and receive direct guidance. Recordings included.
6 Months of Ongoing Support
Private Members' Community
Share your drawings, ask questions and receive ongoing support in our private community. I'm active there daily.
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✓ 6 Months of Personal Guidance & Support
Real Artists. Real Progress.
Real messages, milestones and wins from artists inside the mentorship.
“Two of my friends saw this and the last portrait, reached out to me and said, ‘What happened to you? Your drawing got so much better all of a sudden.’ You have taken your charcoal drawing to the next level! Gosh, I just got what I was missing, that is all, but that is huge!”
“I’m very excited about this work. It makes me feel like a real artist and not just a copy machine.”
“My win is that I reflected on what I did for the last month and found a huge progress I made from the baseline drawing through to the last portrait. It was beyond my expectations for only one month study.”
“My take away is how good Adam’s teaching is and I especially like the videos where Adam shows me the corrections I need to progress.”
“The Light of Truth took a Blue Ribbon going to State Show, with Louis Armstrong taking a 3rd Place Ribbon.”
“Just had someone purchase my Viking drawing I posted here the other day.”
“I got a commission from one of my friends for his dog’s portraits after posting this, which was meant to be a trial for me.”
“Your stepwise approach is really going to help me focus on one step at a time rather than anxiously tweaking bits of a portrait trying to find likeness. I learned more in this video than I did in a recent three-day workshop with a famous artist!”
Hear From Stine
Her experience inside the mentorship.
THE NEXT STEP
Let's Talk About Your Portrait Drawing.
Interested in the 6-Month Portrait Mentorship? Book a personal call with me to see if it's right for you.
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Look at your recent portraits together.
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Discuss what's holding you back.
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Talk about your drawing goals.
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Explore how the mentorship can help you improve.
Free Personal Portrait Review
Whether you join or not, you can submit a portrait and I'll send you a personal video showing the three biggest improvements you can make.
No pressure. No hard sell. Just an honest conversation about your drawing.
Have Any Questions?
This is for anyone who draws portraits with graphite or charcoal and wants a structured process to simplify any portrait and draw it more accurately from the start. This course is focused specifically on drawing and is not intended for painters.
I show you exactly what I use and how I prepare everything before I begin drawing. But if you already have your preferred graphite or charcoal materials, you can still apply everything, as the course is focused on the fundamentals of portraiture.
You can submit your completed Box Portrait Exercise along with one of your own portrait drawings. I’ll personally review your work and give you feedback on what’s working and where you can improve.
The Value Generator is included with the course and helps simplify your portrait references into clearer tonal shapes, making it easier to see the larger tonal structure before getting caught up in detail.
You’ll get lifetime access to all of the course lessons and the Value Generator. The course is completely self-paced, so you can work through it in your own time and come back to the lessons whenever you need them.
Go through the course, complete the exercise and submit your work for the personal review. If, after going through the process and receiving my feedback, you genuinely feel you haven’t learned anything that helps your portrait drawing, I’ll refund your purchase.
