Beginner's Guide to Drawing Portraits

A complete beginner's guide to drawing portraits, from a best-selling author. Pastel pencils, watersoluble pencils and pastels take their place alongside pen, pencil and charcoal. The human face has timeless and universal attraction. In this book, master artist and bestselling author Carole Massey leads you through the different elements of the face, allowing you to gradually build your skills before leading on to successfully describing your subject's likeness and character. Clear instructions supported by hundreds of inspirational examples of faces from all round the world show the absolute beginner how to capture form, tone and line in all of their portraits. Covers all major drawing media: pen, pencil, charcoal, pastel pencils, watersoluble pencils and soft pastels 5 step-by-step projects and numerous helpful exercises from a master artist All you need to know on critical aspects of portraiture, including composition, proportion, capturing a likeness, self-portraiture, and adding story. Drawing the human face has a timeless and universal appeal, though it's often perceived as being difficult to achieve. Carole's book removes the mystery from portrait painting, and makes the subject accessible to even absolute beginners. She shows you in easy step-by-step stages how to use line, tone and form to capture a likeness and give it both personality and expression. Containing simple exercises along with longer step-by-step projects, this book leads you by the hand through the different elements of the face, allowing you to gradually build your skills before leading on to successfully describing your subject's likeness and character. Composition, clothing, props and more personal characteristics like age and hairstyles are all covered. The book also includes information on drawing from life.