Welcome to DC Portrait Lab — your place for realistic portrait drawing in graphite and charcoal.
I’m Denise Clark, a portrait artist sharing real-time drawings, likeness tutorials, and practical techniques to help you improve your realism and capture the human face with confidence.
On this channel you’ll find:
Pencil Portrait video
🎨 Realistic graphite & charcoal portrait tutorials
🧠 Likeness studies and facial feature breakdowns
👁️ Tips for shading, proportions, and drawing eyes, noses, lips & hair
📸 Celebrity portraits + everyday character studies
⏱️ Real-time drawings & speedpaint insights
Whether you’re learning to draw people or simply enjoy watching portraits come to life, this channel gives you the tools, techniques, and inspiration to level up your art.
Subscribe to DC Portrait Lab and explore the art — and science — of drawing realistic faces!
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Hi everyone did you see my last video ?
https://youtu.be/toaKNy5Os7k
I mentioned in the video that I'd love to know what paper is your favourite to use for pencil portraits, and what erasers do you use? Have you found any issues with erasers when you need to erase grid lines? Reply here with your comments !
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Who loves portrait drawing in pencil or charcoal? Coming soon, my next playlist: 'How to Draw Realistic Features, featuring Pete Townshend! First part is 'The Eyes That Create The Likeness'. All tips here in this video can be applied to anyone you draw. Watch this if your finished portraits don't look like your reference photo, I show you exactly what to do to get a good likeness, I don't leave out anything you need to get your own portraits better. See you there!
2 months ago | [YT] | 2
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Hi everyone, I have a new portrait tuition video about to be published! It's a pencil portrait of Robert Aramayo the actor, If you like to see men's portraits check out a few of mine drawn in various mediums- charcoal, pencil and pastel!
3 months ago | [YT] | 1
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Hi everyone! There will be 3 videos coming over the next few days that cover the whole portrait of Robert Aramayo in Pencil! I’m making you a playlist so you can watch the parts that feel most relevant to what you’re looking for.
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Hi everyone, welcome to my new YouTube Community. Now you can post on my channel too. To get started, tell me in a post what you'd like to see next on my channel.
Visit my Community: youtube.com/@DCPortraitLab/community
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Hi everyone! This is Robert Aramayo in pencil. I’m pleased with how this picture turned out, although it didn’t go that smoothly! I’m editing the videos of the full picture process at the moment, if you’re interested in how this picture evolved look for the finished video here on YouTube, I’ll post it soon! It’s in an exhibition at the moment in The White Horse bookshop gallery, Marlborough High Street Uk.
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