This guide encourages students to forget about creating a likeness, and instead, to concentrate on seeing and drawing the big shapes of dark and light. The likenesses will follow. In a clear, step-by-step format, with the help of nine start-to-finish portrait demonstrations, readers will learn:
- Easy, basic pencil and charcoal techniques
- How to draw each feature of the face
- How to communicate various facial expressions
- Techniques for working from live models
- How to draw a variety of people, different poses and lighting conditions
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