How to Draw Fun, Fab Faces is a fun-for-all-ages, comprehensive guide to drawing simple, beautiful, female faces. With clear, easy to follow step-by-step directions, fun drawing prompts, full color examples and tons of encouragement, drawing pretty faces has never been easier! In addition to 70+ pages of instructions and fun, engaging activities, budding artists can further hone their skills by rendering the bonus coloring pages! This is a great addition to any artists' drawing library and is truly fun and useful for all ages. The book also has an accompanying e-course for those wishing to further their study and practice in the art of drawing fan, fabulous faces. Go to AwesomeArtSchool.com to learn more!

Jane Davenport creates the ultimate art journal for mixed-media artists.

Perfect for aspiring designers, Drawing and Painting Beautiful Faces is an inspiring, mixed-media workbook on how to draw and paint beautiful, fashion illustration–style faces. Author Jane Davenport is a beloved artist and international workshop instructor known by her thousands of students and fans for her over-the-top, enthusiastic, happy, and encouraging style. In Drawing and Painting Beautiful Faces, Davenport guides you, step by step, through the foundations of drawing a face, developing successful features, creating skin tones, playing with bright colors, shading, highlighting, and much more as you learn to create amazing mixed-media portraits. With this elegantly designed guidebook, you will quickly master a variety of techniques in a variety ofmediums, including: Pencil Marker Pen Watercolor Acrylic paint Ink Pastel Ephemera Drawing and Painting Beautiful Faces will have you dancing your way through the exercises. In no time at all, you will have a selection of beautifully faced portraits ready to view, display, or even sell to a fashion designer.

Drawing hands is extraordinarily difficult, even for accomplished artists. This book teaches you a very simple and straightforward way to draw truly amazing, completely realistic-looking hands, and all in 6 simple steps! In her typical, laid back, easy-to-understand and conversational teaching style, Artist Karen Campbell once again makes it both easy and enjoyable for artists of all abilities to first understand and then successfully execute even the most hand difficult drawings in this book. Using a combination of humor and easy-to-follow steps, Karen teaches you ways to develop muscle memory, sharpen your observational skills, and draw and shade realistic hands in graphite. The 25 different hand gestures include a wide variety of poses from people of all ages (from babies to old men) so there is literally something in here for everyone. Artists of all abilities will also learn to successfully and easily create the look of those troublesome hand details that seem to always pop up like wrinkles, veins, creases, bumps, bones, tendons, arm hair, long nails and more...and all with just a handful of supplies! Never heard of Elephant Skin or The "Poodge" show up on people before? Well get ready, because not only are you about to learn what those are, you're about to learn how to draw them too!

This is not your typical coloring book! Created by celebrated artist Jane Davenport, and featuring only images of women, Whimsical Girls is bursting with Jane's signature-style figures, faces, and fanciful drawings to color and customize. Three types of high-quality paper--coloring, marker, watercolor, and kraft paper--encourage users to experiment with a variety of mediums and techniques, while bonus stickers and brilliantly hued collage paper provide added fuel for creativity.

A fun and comprehensive guide to drawing simple, beautiful, female faces from the profile and 3/4 view

Start with a heart . . . and create beautiful in-proportion people! Aspiring artists who feel intimidated at drawing figures will love Jane Davenport's amazingly easy technique, developed while she worked as a fashion illustrator. It involves using equal-size hearts to build the body's structure, and the results are astounding. Jane lays out the basics and walks you through working with different mediums; drawing the head, face, clothing, hair, and features; and constructing figures inspired by fashion, fantasy, life drawing, and more.

"Discover the secrets to unleashing your personal artistic style while learning how to draw fabulous female faces and hands"--Cover.

You don't have to be Van Gogh to know: You can't judge a marker color by its cap! Swatching out your art supplies BEFORE you use them is super important and can keep you from making some very grave color mistakes when it comes to masterpiece time!! But, if you're the proud new owner of that 3,000 pencil set it also can be boooooooring! Artist Karen Campbell has gathered a fun group of her artsy friends to help you spice up your swatching options in this collection of fun, easy to use color swatch templates! Copy the images directly on your favorite art papers or color them directly in the book and make the otherwise arduous process of swatching, dare I say...FUN! Say goodbye to boring squares and circles and helloooo to cute designs like classy cocktail glasses, sweet 60's suitcases, owls, flags, lipsticks, faces, perfume bottles, hunky dudes, birdhouses and MORE! Before you botch it, swatch it!