Artist’s Complete Guide to Facial Expressions
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Gary Faigin
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- File Type: PDF
- File Size: 110.3 MB
- Book Language: English
- Total Page Count: 291
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Artist’s Complete Guide to Facial Expressions
Gary Faigin’s Artist’s Complete Guide to Facial Expressions is a comprehensive visual reference for capturing emotion in portraiture. This digital PDF edition is ready for instant download, with the complete text and 400 black-and-white illustrations in one file.
Faigin explains the muscles behind each expression and shows how they shape the face across three key areas: the forehead and brows, the eyes, and the mouth and chin.
About the Artist’s Complete Guide
This guide begins with the structure of the head, then moves to the muscles of expression, and finally presents the six basic human expressions: sadness, anger, joy, fear, disgust, and surprise. Each emotion is shown in steadily increasing intensity, from subtle signs to full expressions.
The author’s detailed renderings are accompanied by illustrations from news photos, cartoons, movie posters, and art masterworks. An appendix covers related physical states such as yawning and pain.
What You’ll Discover Inside
- The role of facial muscles in creating expressions
- Detailed anatomy of the brow, eye, and mouth muscles
- How skull structure affects successful portraiture
- The six basic expressions and their variations
- Examples from photography, film posters, and art history
- An appendix on physical expressions like yawning and wincing
Why This Book Matters
This is a unique reference for artists, illustrators, animators, and students. It connects anatomy with artistic practice and has remained a standard resource since its first publication in 1990. The book is widely used in art schools and by professional portrait artists.
Book Details
| Format | |
|---|---|
| File Size | 110.3 MB |
| File Size (Bytes) | 115607603 |
| Pages | 291 |
| Language | English |
| Author | Gary Faigin |
| Publisher | Watson-Guptill Publications |
| Publication Date | 1990 |
| Original Title | The Artist’s Complete Guide to Facial Expression |
| Original Print Pages | 288 |
| ISBN-10 | 0-8230-1628-5 |
| ISBN-13 | 9780823016280 |
| ASIN | B002F6Y7VA |
| Best Sellers Rank | #2,896,290 in Books |
| Customer Reviews | 4.8 out of 5 stars (19) |
| Illustrations | 400 black-and-white illustrations |
| Print Dimensions | 84 x 11 inches (21 x 28 cm) |
| Edition | First Printing, 1990 |
| Library of Congress Control Number | 90-48379 |
| Dewey Decimal | 704.9’42 |
| Item Weight | 1.58 pounds |
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Add this essential reference to your library and improve your portrait drawing today.
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