Drawing Portraits for the Absolute Beginner: A Clear & Easy Guide to Successful Portrait Drawing (Art for the Absolute Beginner)
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Mark and Mary Willenbrink’s Absolute Beginner books have helped thousands of novices tap into their inner artists. In this book, Mark and Mary help the beginning artist take on portraits, showing that absolutely anyone can draw faces. Their encouraging, easy-to-follow instruction style makes learning fun—you’ll be amazed by how quickly you achieve impressive results.
Drawing Portraits for the Absolute Beginner covers everything from warming up with sketches, and capturing facial expressions, to framing your finished work. Page by page, you’ll build the skills and confidence you need to draw lifelike portraits of your friends and family.
What’s Inside:
• A simple two-stage approach to drawing portraits: sketch a likeness, then build up values to bring it to life
• Step-by-step instruction for drawing eyes, noses, mouths, hairstyles, hands, glasses and other tricky elements
• 13 complete demonstrations featuring a range of ages and ethnicities
• Tips for evoking more personality in your portraits by using props, costumes and accessories
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163 reviews for Drawing Portraits for the Absolute Beginner: A Clear & Easy Guide to Successful Portrait Drawing (Art for the Absolute Beginner)
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Amazon Customer –
Love the whole series.
Mahteigaijja C. –
Hopefully I will understand the technique sooner rather than later
latavia –
great book easy to follow
Amazon Customer –
Don’t know where to start? Start by reading this book. I’ve larned a lot about drawing portraits by using everything I’ve learned by reading this book. You can too. Why wait, start now.
Cc ryder –
Great book for beginners !
wendy staddon –
Excellent starting point.
Ann –
I found this book to be most helpful, I studied art many years ago and having retired returned to portraiture, this has been an excellent book to help me to grasp the basic principles
Trudy –
The style of sketching I want to do is different from this style, wasn’t sure if I wanted to keep it but I think I’m gonna try some of the illistrations and see how I can do with it. There are so many methods/styles of sketching. Really you have to find what works for you.
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Bharathi –
Amazing book.I found the step by step instructions very useful and easy to follow.thanks amazon
Stan –
Straight forward, easy to follow instruction. Reinforced other teachings as well as provided new techniques I could apply right from the start.
Fast, efficient service as always.
M Brown –
I started in February learning to sketch. This is a book I have used to help learn and develop techniques from cover to cover. A must have.
Sandra –
Bought for my 9 year old . She loves it!
Andre –
As long as you have a decent eye this book works great. Heck even if you dont have a decent eye, practice makes perfect right.
Anyways, this book teaches you the basics of portrait drawing. It gets into detail about proportions and details on each part of the face.
It touches a little on things like glasses and hats. And walks you step by step through quite a few portraits in the end of the book.
Get this! Its great!