This essential volume combines four vintage instructional manuals by a world-famous art teacher and publisher to form a comprehensive guide to depicting faces. Instructions for charcoal, crayon, and pencil illustrations feature step-by-step drawings with helpful comments, plus full-page images of completed portraits. Subjects include men, women, and children, plus a variety of ages and ethnic types. Dover Original.
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Heads, Features and Faces by George B. Bridgman Helpful approach to difficult area. Almost 200 drawings plus text and examples from work of Vermeer, Hals, Rembrandt, others.
How to Draw the Head in Light and Shade by Edward Renggli Features the human head in every conceivable pose and illumination, from bright light to gentle shade. Includes drawings of all age groups, and provides advice on proportion, foreshortening, more. 75 illustrations.
Figures and Faces: A Sketcher's Handbook by Hugh Laidman Veteran artist, illustrator, and teacher shows how simple and rewarding it can be to draw two of the most challenging of artistic subjects. 160 pages of figures; 25 halftones; 4 charts.
Pen & Ink Techniques by Frank 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.
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.
Life Drawing in Charcoal by Douglas R. Graves Innovative method of drawing by tonal masses. Step-by-step demonstrations, with over 200 illustrations, cover foreshortening, drawing the face, and other aspects.
Drawing the Living Figure by Joseph Sheppard Innovative approach to artistic anatomy focuses on specifics of surface anatomy, rather than muscles and bones. 177 drawings of live models in front, back, and side views, and in widely varying poses.
Bridgman’s Life Drawing by George B. Bridgman More than 500 drawings and text teach you to abstract the body into its major masses. Also specific areas of anatomy.
