In this comprehensive, beautifully illustrated guide, one of the great children's portraitists covers every aspect of painting and drawing children. He starts by showing how children's anatomy differs from that of adults and telling how to get to know the child. 59 black-and-white and 40 color illustrations.
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Figure Drawing and Portraiture: In Pencil, Chalk and Charcoal by Borough Johnson, Borough Johnson With easy-to-follow advice and 82 illustrations, an award-winning artist demonstrates how to draw the human figure, offering advice on proportion, anatomy, composition, drawing from memory, and capturing emotion with an economy of line. Includes an 8-page color insert.
Pen & Ink Techniques by Frank J. Lohan This richly illustrated manual for beginning, intermediate, and advanced artists covers everything from hatching, tones, and stippling to dealing with the problems that can arise when adding texture, light, and shade.
Hawthorne on Painting by Charles W. Hawthorne Hawthorne was an American painter who founded the Cape Cod School of Art. This work, collected from notes taken by his actual students, offers hundreds of direct lessons, ideas, suggestions, and more.