Illustrator, designer, and author Melissa de Nobrega has helped over 20,000 students improve their artwork through her online art classes. Her new book, Portraits with Procreate: A Beginner’s Guide to Drawing and Painting Faces, delivers her gentle teaching style in a non-digital format.

Melissa works from her home in Toronto, Ontario, and is the creator of makebetter.art, an online resource for budding and amateur artists who want to…well, make better art. Access classes and other resources at makebetter.art or by following her on instagram @melissadn.art.