What was your primary motivation for purchasing this course?
Learn a new skill
“Absolutely loved this course! Jonathan really gets to the heart of portrait painting, and he answered questions I didn't know I had - brilliant learning experience!”
Hi Katharina,
Thank you for your feedback and we’re sorry to hear you’re underwhelmed with the Portrait Painting course. We value every BBC Maestro customer and want you to get the best out of your BBC Maestro subscription.
With a subscription, you have access to all of our amazing courses across 8 categories, so we're sure you'll find something you like. You can browse all of our courses here: https://www.bbcmaestro.com/courses
Best,
Zoe
What was your primary motivation for purchasing this course?
Pursue a hobby
“Engaging and thought provoking. The process of painting in all its aspects. Not a how-to, this is how to paint, here is a demonstration but practical information you might not find elsewhere or have thought about. Much more interesting than I thought it would have been and of the 3 courses I have done, I think this is the best one so far. Happy to recommend.”
What was your primary motivation for purchasing this course?
Learn a new skill
“Doesn't do a great job of presenting technical skills in a coherent fashion. Learning points take a long time to come out. It would have been useful to present basic colour theory, more on how to actually draw the facial features/measure your reference, where to use warm and cool tones.
Videos are really long and mostly artist talking into the camera, needs more demonstration and actionable advice. His work is really cool, but this course so far has not been a lot of learning for time invested. His main take away seems to be "just try things out" and "not knowing artist rules allowed me to be uniquely creative" which is great, but also not very helpful when you're trying to learn.
Overall needs to be more succint, better visuals to re-enforce concepts presented, better organized. More demonstration that the student can follow along and try for themselves would be really useful.”
Hi Lauren,
Thank you for your feedback. We value every BBC Maestro customer and we're sorry to hear you are underwhelmed with your purchase.
We'd love to give you the opportunity to try out another BBC Maestro course - we have so many great courses that I'm sure we have something else for you to enjoy. Please get in touch with our amazing customer support team at support@bbcmaestro.com to let them know if there's another course that interests you and we can get this exchanged for you.
Best,
Zoe
What was your primary motivation for purchasing this course?
Learn a new skill
“Total waste of time and money listening to someone talking for eight hours and saying nothing. Not what I expected. I thought there would be practical demonstrations”
Hi Andrew,
Thank you for your feedback. We value every BBC Maestro customer and we're sorry to hear you are underwhelmed with your purchase.
We'd love to give you the opportunity to try out another BBC Maestro course - we have so many great courses that I'm sure we have something else for you to enjoy. Please get in touch with our amazing customer support team at support@bbcmaestro.com to let them know if there's another course that interests you and we can get this exchanged for you.
Best,
Zoe
“I found this an amazing course - very unusually, Jonathan - I thought - focused more and first on the spirit behind doing a portrait, and then the helpful methods of achieving that (eg. lighting) rather than telling you how you should paint a portrait. You see his portrait develop as he gets to know his sitter - evident in a first impression portrait and a later one which has depth and shows more of the spirit of the sitter, rather than a snapshot in time. So I thought it was great and really helpful (there are lots of practical tips too).”
