Drawing and Painting Beautiful Faces: A Mixed-Media Portrait Workshop
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| Rating | : | 4.41 (556 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1592539866 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 136 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-12-04 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
In this book, she guides you step-by-step through the foundations of drawing a face, developing harmonious features, creating smooth skin tones, playing with bright colors, shading, highlighting and so much more. Author Jane Davenport is a beloved artist, and popular international workshop instructor known by her students and fans for her effervescent, enthusiastic, happy and encouraging style. Drawing and Painting Beautiful Faces is an inspiring, mixed media workbook on how to draw and paint beautiful, fashion illustration-style faces. This book is full of new techniques to engage and inspire your imagination.Master a variety of techniques that employ pencil, marker, pen, watercolor, acrylic paint, ink, pastel, and ephemera as you happily dance your way through the exercises in this brilliant guide.
This book is great - not a quick flick This book is great - not a quick flick, but an ongoing reference which has helped me understand more about drawing portraits with my own unique style. The shading templates are particularly helpful as I refer to them when drawing faces so I can create depth and 3D suggestion. The instructions are very detailed and there are loads of step by step photos of the pr. What a treat for mixed media junkies! I am SOOOOO glad I purchased this book!I was not that familiar with Ms. Davenport's art but I love mixed media and portraits in particular, so I was drawn to this, like a magnet. After the first few pages I knew I would not be disappointed, and after pouring halfway through I had to stop and not finish the book. I needed to savor it, make it last, and I didn't w. Kitsched said Crazy Good. Trust me: You need this book. I have a lot of mixed media books and so many of them are pretty books without a lot of techniques. Most of them presume you already know how to draw. "Drawing and Painting Beautiful Faces" however, is packed with practical, clear techniques for learning to draw fabulous mixed media faces. Jane Davenport gives solid, detailed, clear
Full of step-by-step exercises, this finely crafted book will help you create dramatic eyes, lighting, hair, and more. "For anyone who has longed to draw faces, Drawing and Painting Beautiful Faces by Jane Davenport will make your dreams a reality. You will be creating dramatic mixed-media portraits by the end of this book." - Cloth Paper Scissors. The most difficult part of drawing faces is balancing and placing features, but Davenport offers guidelines to format any face, even when tilted or angled. Discover all of Davenport's favorite materia