Learn how to draw proportional, realistic portraits in this easy to follow, step-by-step tutorial! Learn from an experienced artist and art teacher, Jasmina Susak, who will guide you in drawing process from complete scratch to the finished portrait. Not only will you learn how to draw facial features and skin, but hair too in this highly detailed tutorial. This tutorial was made for intermediate artists, but beginners should also give it a try since Jasmina will share a lot of tips and tricks that will help you understand the most important things behind a realistic style of drawing. Take this book, enhance your drawing skills, and get your portraits to the next level!

Pick up your pencil, embrace your inner artist, and learn how to draw in thirty days with this approachable step-by-step guide from an Emmy award-winning PBS host. Drawing is an acquired skill, not a talent -- anyone can learn to draw! All you need is a pencil, a piece of paper, and the willingness to tap into your hidden artistic abilities. With Emmy award-winning, longtime PBS host Mark Kistler as your guide, you'll learn the secrets of sophisticated three-dimensional renderings, and have fun along the way -- in just twenty minutes a day for a month. Inside you'll find: Quick and easy step-by-step instructions for drawing everything from simple spheres to apples, trees, buildings, and the human hand and face More than 500 line drawings, illustrating each step Time-tested tips, techniques, and tutorials for drawing in 3-D The 9 Fundamental Laws of Drawing to create the illusion of depth in any drawing 75 student examples to encourage you in the process

Learn to create detailed, realistic portraits in graphite pencil from basic shapes. Successfully drawing the human face is one of the most challenging, yet rewarding, artistic experiences. Faces & Features shows you how to capture the unique characteristics of the human face in graphite pencil, with tips on choosing materials, building with basic shapes, placing proportionate features, defining facial expression, and shading to develop form and realism. With a wealth of detailed step-by-step projects to both re-create and admire, Debra Kauffman Yaun teaches artists how to develop a portrait drawing to its fullest. She shares her personal methods for rendering the human face in all its expressiveness as she introduces tips and techniques for approachingbabies, children, teenagers, and adults of all ages. This book includes in-depth information on specific facial features as well as detailed, step-by-step exercises that explore ways to develop complete portraits. And the wealth of beautiful, inspiring examples ensure that Faces & Features will be a welcome addition to any artist’s drawing reference library. Drawing faces can be a challenge, but with this step-by-step guide, you’ll be rendering realistic portraits in no time. Designed for beginners, the How to Draw & Paint series offers an easy-to-follow guide that introduces artists to basic tools and materials and includes simple step-by-step lessons for a variety of projects suitable for the aspiring artist. Faces & Features allows artists to develop their drawing skills, demonstrating how to start with basic shapes and use pencil and shading techniques to create varied textures, values, and details for a realistic, completed drawing.

Draw amazingly accurate portraits starting today! Even if you're an absolute beginner, you can render strikingly realistic faces and self-portraits! Instructor and FBI-trained artist Carrie Stuart Parks makes it simple with foolproof step-by-step instructions that are fun and easy to follow. You'll quickly begin to: • Master proportions and map facial features accurately • Study shapes within a composition and draw them realistically • Use value, light and shading to add life and depth to any portrait • Render tricky details, including eyes, noses, mouths and hair Proven, hands-on exercises and before-and-after examples from Parks' students ensure instant success! It's all the guidance and inspiration you need to draw realistic faces with precision, confidence and style!

Draw the best portraits with form and spirit. Drawing techniques from a master! Mau-Kun Yim learned to draw as the Old Masters did and believes that to render the essence of life in portrait drawing, one must continue to pursue the old ways. This philosophy and methodology relies on a holistic approach to observation, analysis and critical-thinking honed through time and patience. • Start with a solid foundation - Classical bust drawing is a must. These lessons aid in constructing volume in your drawing and introduce concepts of structure. • Move on to sketching - The best way to train your observation skills. Anatomy, value and state of mind are the focus of these lessons. • 12 step-by-step tutorials put it all together - Form and spirit combine along with more clearly defined details to bring life and dimension to your portraits. • An extensive gallery of beautifully and classically executed portraits, figures, sketches and busts serves as inspiration.

When you are learning to draw, you don't need a picture or two showing you what to do. You need tons of pictures to guide you gently through each of the many steps. Too many art books make enormous leaps with little explanation, forcing you out of the zone to waste time trying to figure out what the "Teacher" did. With this drawing book, each lesson will include tons of pictures and instructions to help you draw the best faces that you can and I explain all the details so you are never left staring at the picture thinking - How did she do that?. "Learning by Example" is the best way to learn how to draw faces. Instead of reading about drawing faces, learn how to draw faces by drawing alongside actual tutorials. Drawing people's faces is one of the most challenging things that you can learn how to do, and there is no better way to learn than to jump on in and start drawing. This drawing book teaches you how to draw all of the specific facial features of the head, including step by step tutorials for drawing ears, noses, eyes, hair, and mouths. You will learn how to draw proportional faces and heads of babies, children, women, men, adults, and the elderly. You will learn all about drawing a proportional face, as well as correctly placing features on the face. You will learn how to shade and add tone to the face, using graphite artists pencils and a few other inexpensive art tools. When you are done with this book, you will feel very comfortable drawing people's faces. Soon you will be drawing people's portraits and feeling proud of yourself. These tutorials are meant for later stage beginners and intermediate artists.Learning how to draw portraits and drawing people's faces has never been so easy. These step by step drawing lessons will guide you through the process of drawing people's faces with ease. Portrait drawing is the art of drawign people's faces and their facial features. Learn all about drawing portraits / drawing people's faces in this drawing book.

A series of step-by-step tutorials uses a proven professional method to demonstrate how to achieve likenesses in drawn portraits, sharing related advice on what materials to use and how to find a model.

Everyone is capable of drawing, all it takes is patience and determination. Yet many people see drawing as a miracle that is beyond their reach. This book will inspire you and help you get started. You will learn how to draw and shade everyday objects, textures, patterns, facial features and even landscapes with the help of the experienced drawing instructor. The author and popular pencil artist, Jasmina Susak, builds drawings from scratch in a simple manner that is easy to follow and understand.

Expert guidance needed to experiment successfully with the full range of subjects and media are presented here.

In this tutorial you will learn how to draw an eye with colored pencils from complete scratch. You will learn about the materials and techniques used in creating an eye and the skin around it. The tutorial is written and illustrated by a well-known, colored pencil artist Jasmina Susak, whose photorealistic drawings are popular around the world. The author will walk you through step-by-step and give you all of the tips and advices necessary so you can follow along and draw the same. Jasmina will share her unique shading techniques and blending methods that will help you successfully create a realistic eyes and skin with colored pencils.