Drawing Expressive Portraits

Download or read book Drawing Expressive Portraits written by Paul Leveille and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2001-08-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide encourages you to forget about creating a likeness, and instead, to concentrate on seeing and drawing the big shapes of dark and light. The likenesses will follow. In a clear, step-by-step format, with the help of nine start-to-finish portrait demonstrations, you will learn: • Easy, basic pencil and charcoal techniques • How to draw each feature of the face • How to communicate various facial expressions • Techniques for working from live models • How to draw a variety of people, different poses and lighting conditions