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Click to enlargeFigures and Faces: A Sketcher's Handbook

Hugh Laidman
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ISBN: 0486437612
Page Count: 160
Dimensions: 8 3/8 x 11
Veteran artist, illustrator, and teacher shows how simple and rewarding it can be to draw two of the most challenging of artistic subjects. A brief review of anatomical structure is followed by detailed illustrations and clear instructions for drawing people of different ages and ethnic groups. 160 pages of figures; 25 halftones; 4 charts.
Unabridged republication of Figures/Faces: A Sketcher’s Handbook, originally published by The Viking Press, New York, 1979.

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