Secrets to Drawing Realistic Faces

Carrie Stuart Parks

• 31 december 2002
• 9781600614958

Samenvatting:

This book will have beginning artists of all ages drawing faces that are strikingly realistic and detailed. Artist Carrie Stuart Parks honed her fast and effective drawing skills as a professional forensic artist. Here she makes drawing fun and easy, showing beginners how to render vivid self portraits and portraits of others, all in a matter of hours. Artists will successfully learn how to master proportions and map facial features accurately. They will then study shapes within a composition and learn to draw them realistically. Lastly, artists will study the subject's values and use them to bring life and accuracy to each portrait. A final "checking" step helps artists capture heightened realism and accuracy. This book features clear step-by-step instructions, before-and-after examples from students, and proven drawing exercises used to train artists throughout the country.