About Pyzareth

Drawing a face is learning to actually look at one.

We built Pyzareth around a single idea — that portrait drawing is not a talent you have, it's a skill you develop through deliberate, guided practice. Both in groups and one-on-one.

74+ Students taught

4.5 Average rating

2 Learning formats

Group sessions

Learning with others changes what you notice

Watching a classmate struggle with the same proportion problem you had last week is genuinely useful. Group sessions at Pyzareth are kept small — no more than 8 people — so critique stays real and personal, not a generic comment for the whole room.

Live sessions via video, twice a week
Rotating model references each session
Peer critique with instructor facilitation
Shared progress folder for comparison

Individual lessons

One instructor, one student, one specific problem

Private sessions move at your pace, not the group's. If you've been drawing eyes incorrectly for years, we spend the time needed to fix that — not just note it and move on. Every session ends with a clear next step you actually understand.

Flexible scheduling, booked directly
Homework reviewed before each session
Custom reference materials prepared for you
Progress tracked across all completed work

The people behind it

Small team, clear focus

Every instructor at Pyzareth still draws regularly. Teaching portrait work without an active practice of your own produces shallow feedback.

Orest Kavyliuk

Lead Drawing Instructor

Orest has been teaching portrait drawing since 2018, working with beginners who've never picked up a pencil seriously and with artists correcting habits from earlier training. His sessions focus on observation — specifically on what people think they're seeing versus what's actually in front of them.

He completed formal academic training in Kyiv and spent several years doing commissioned portrait work before shifting focus to teaching. His approach is direct: he'll tell you what's wrong in the drawing before what's right.

Graphite portrait Likeness studies Anatomy of the face Academic drawing Light and shadow

Daryna Voskal

Curriculum & Student Progress

Daryna structures the learning paths for both group and individual students, making sure each stage builds on the previous one in a way that's paced for real life — not an idealized 30-minutes-a-day schedule.

Work in practice

What sessions actually look like

These are screenshots and materials from real classes — not staged. Portrait drawing at this level involves a lot of back-and-forth, erasing, and reconsidering. That's the process.

Student working on portrait proportions during a live Pyzareth session

Live group session — proportion study

Close-up of graphite portrait drawing showing facial structure

Facial planes, individual lesson

Reference material and drawing tools used in portrait class

Reference setup for eye studies

Portrait drawing mid-stage showing shading and value work

Value study, shading stage