This delightful introduction to drawing faces completely demystifies the drawing process. It shows how images can be built up easily, from initial geometric shapes right through to the finished faces. Susie Hodge includes a good selection of head-and-shoulder portraits in this book including couples, children, babies and older people in a variety of poses, and showing a range of expressions. She uses a helpful two-colour method that clearly shows every line and curve of the step-by-step pictures. Even absolute beginners will find themselves creating great drawings when they use this book and there is much to inspire more experienced artists too. An invaluable guide for anyone interested in this subject.
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Just about anybody who has any interest in art at all wishes that they could draw faces - capturing our own and our loved ones' likenesses is a very basic desire. Learn to draw faces from scratch with another in this series on basic drawing skills. There are all sorts of head and shoulder studies in here to capture; young and old, pretty and less so, black, white and other races, babies and pairs of people. Breaking it down in the way this series does, starting with basic shapes and adding more details one step at a time works remarkably well with everything but particularly so with faces. I confess that this is the hardest thing to draw for me but working my way through the stages produced some of my best work so there is hope for everybody! The fifth stage shows the full pencil drawing, and the sixth and final stage shows what it looks like in watercolors. Getting from #5 to #6 is always the hardest part with these books, but it does get you thinking about what goes where and why which is all to the good. Apart from the introduction which explains something about how to use the book there are no other words, just pictures and this method works well, showing that a picture really is worth a thousand words. I look forward to see what subjects this series tackles next.-Myshelf.com In this slender yet useful book, Susie draws a wide variety of different shaped faces in a step by step style that allows you to see the thinking behind the shapes that compose a face and the different stages of development.-Craft Focus
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Susie Hodge has a passion for art education and has been teaching practical art and art history to children and adults for over 11 years. She has written and illustrated many drawing books. She also works for the Royal Academy, the Tate and the V&A Museum to produce booklets for visitors, teachers and students. She lives in Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex.
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Drawing the human face is challenging to beginners. Here Susie Hodge has taken different faces and reduced the drawing to six simple steps so that anyone can have a go. The first stage is in green pencil. Green is then used to build the portrait whilst the earlier marks are shown in blue. In stage four green is used for detail and shading. The fifth shade completes the picture in graphite pencil. Finally the sixth stage shows the portrait as a painting, although you could use coloured pencil. There is nothing new in the approach - drawing the face as an oval, dividing it up into sections for the positioning of features, shading to provide shape and so on, but this book should help beginners get to grips with the basics. There are no written instructions, no technical instructions to learn - you are just copying what you see in the pictures. There are 28 portraits of people of all ages and sexes, from many ethnic backgrounds. Variety has been added by showing the head in different positions such as facing or sideways and by changing the expression on the face such as smiling serious etc.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
By Amber :)
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I think this book is really great for anyone who wants to know how to draw faces, or is simply a drawer. Each portrait to draw is step by step, and is shown what it looks like,when finished,in pencil, graphite pencil and watercolour. I have really enjoyed drawing the faces in this book so far, and i highly recommend this to anyone, because it basically shows you all the things you need to do to draw a face step by step :)
By big bad dom
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This book contains no written information on how to draw faces whatso ever, for the inexperienced artist ora beginners I would not recommed this book
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