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Download or read book The Art of Drawing & Painting Portraits written by Tim Chambers and published by Walter Foster. This book was released on 2012-09 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This all-inclusive book covers everything about portraiture in the most popular drawing and painting media.

Download or read book The Art of Drawing People written by Debra Kauffman Yaun and published by Walter Foster Publishing. This book was released on 2019-09-03 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn to draw one of art's most interesting and challenging subjects. Packed with practical advice, helpful tips, and fundamental drawing techniques, The Art of Drawing People explores how to capture detailed poses and likenesses in graphite pencil. With step-by-step instruction from a variety of artists, you’ll find plenty of helpful tips on choosing the right tools and materials, fundamental drawing techniques, developing value and shading, and setting up an effective composition, as well as important information about the influences of anatomy, bone structure, and musculature. Detailed examples of facial features, hands, and feet will help guide you through the most challenging aspects of drawing people. Whether drawing from life or from photographs, this comprehensive drawing guide is the perfect first step for beginning artists. Follow along, step by step, as professional artists reveal their drawing secrets. With practice, you’ll soon be able to capture amazing likenesses in your own pencil drawings. It’s as easy as 1, 2, 3.

Download or read book Painting Portraits written by Anthony Connolly and published by Crowood. This book was released on 2012-12-21 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Portrait painting is inherently difficult and requires a unique understanding of and sensitivity to the sitter. This practical book considers the historical context of portrait painting and its contemporary practice. Written by a professional portrait painter, it describes the intricacies of making a portrait not just for the technically minded but also for those who are interested in a painter's perspective on the role and importance of portraiture.Step-by-step demonstrations of portraits and self-portraits.Techniques that use colour to introduce subtleties and presence.Advice on catching a likeness and overcoming difficulties.Discussion about the significance of copying and photography.Insights into the artistic process of the portrait painter.Work of contemporary and distinguished painters.'What fascinates me most, much much more than anything else in painting, is the portrait, the modern portrait.' Vincent van Gogh. A practical guide that considers the historical context of portrait painting and its contemporary practice.Aimed at beginners and more experienced; untutored groups and individual artists of portrait painters.Gives step-by-step demonstrations of portraits and self-portraits.Covers use of colour to introduce subtleties and presence.Superbly illustrated with 180 colour illustrations.Anthony Connolly is a professional portrait painter and won the prestigious Prince of Wales Award for Portrait Drawing in 2004.

Download or read book The Art of Oil Painting written by Walter Foster Creative Team and published by Walter Foster Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The reader is introduced to the techniques of oil painting.

Download or read book Art of Drawing People written by Debra Kauffman Yaun and published by Walter Foster. This book was released on 2008-04 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing & drawings.

Download or read book The Art of Portrait Painting written by John Collier and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Colored Pencil Painting Portraits written by Alyona Nickelsen and published by Watson-Guptill. This book was released on 2017-06-20 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colored pencil painter Alyona Nickelsen reveals how to use the medium to push the limits of realistic portraiture. Colored Pencil Painting Portraits provides straightforward solutions to the problems that artists face in creating lifelike images, and will prime readers on the intricacies of color, texture, shadow, and light as they interplay with the human form. In this truly comprehensive guide packed with step-by-step demonstrations, Nickelsen considers working from photo references versus live models; provides guidance on posing and lighting, as well as planning and composing a work; discusses tools, materials, and revolutionary layering techniques; and offers lessons on capturing gesture and expression and on rendering facial and body features of people of all age groups and skin tones.