portrait drawing

Demonstrates how to produce realistic portraits in pencil, watercolor, oil, pastel, and acrylic through step-by-step projects with instruction from four experienced artists, and includes information on anatomy, portraying expressions, depicting different ages and ethnicities, and more.

Offers step-by-step instructions on how to create realistic looking pencil portraits from photographs, demonstrating how to draw individual facial features and how to properly shade and blend tones and highlights.

Step-by-step instructions for drawing fifty different people, including a fifteenth century Monk and a Minuteman in the American Revolution.

Offers a step-by-step guide to drawing faces from fifteen-minute poses, covering all aspects of the portrait process, from constructing the shape of the head to achieving a lifelike expression.

Offers instruction in portrait painting for several mediums, and includes information on materials and color, basic facial structure and proportions, painting from live models and photos, and composition techniques.

Demonstrates techniques for making realistic drawings of children in pencil, discussing the challenges of drawing children, reviewing drawing tools and techniques, and covering facial proportion, facial features, light and shadow, clothing, and other topics.

A guide to drawing portraits, covering materials, mark-making, developing a realistic style, and more and including step-by-step projects.

Seventy self-portraits by such artists as Rembrandt, Picasso, Raphael, Van Gogh and Goya, accompanied by extracts from the artists' journals, letters, or statements.