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Secrets to Drawing Realistic Faces [Kindle Edition]

Carrie Stuart Parks
3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)

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Draw amazingly accurate portraits starting today!Even if you're an absolute beginner, you can render strikingly realistic faces and self-portraits! Instructor and FBI-trained artist Carrie Stuart Parks makes it simple with foolproof step-by-step instructions that are fun and easy to follow. You'll quickly begin to:Master proportions and map facial features accuratelyStudy shapes within a composition and draw them realisticallyUse value, light and shading to add life and depth to any portraitRender tricky details, including eyes, noses, mouths and hairProven, hands-on exercises and before-and-after examples from Parks' students ensure instant success! It's all the guidance and inspiration you need to draw realistic faces with precision, confidence and style!

About the Author

Carrie Stuart Parks is the author of Composite Art without Artistic Talent, Seasons of My Heart. Her artwork is featured in numerous corporate and private collections.

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  • Format: Kindle Edition
  • File Size: 3515 KB
  • Print Length: 144 pages
  • Publisher: North Light Books (1 Jan 2012)
  • Sold by: Amazon Media EU S.à r.l.
  • Language English
  • ASIN: B003YJEYCO
  • Text-to-Speech: Enabled
  • Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #185,071 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Satisfactory 21 May 2006
By Hannah
Format:Paperback
This book did help me start off in drawing reallistic portraits...but only upto a bigginer level. Although tis book does give good information on scale and on the individual features of the face like the mouth...the skin doesn't have a good texture and a lot of the blending was rushed making the skiin 'liney' instead of smooth. There is a lot of wrong information like the very small chapter on drawing hair; she advises to draw it strand by strand in a big liney scribble making the hair unrealistic contrary Mike Sibley's approach to drawing it, an expert on fur and hair. although some of the drawings are pretty good, i would only recommend this book to absolute begginners of reallistic drawing.
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14 of 16 people found the following review helpful
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The scope of this book is very narrow, concentrating almost entirely on how to get a likeness in _pencil_ from _photographs_ . Very little of it will help you with drawing portraits from life, or working in other media.

Imagine that the title is "how to draw realistic faces _from photographs_", and make your descision on those grounds.

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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Excellent essential 18 July 2006
By Emily,
Format:Paperback
I found this book a real must have for drawing faces, real or imaginary. within one hour you can draw perfect eyes, and not just ones from photographs. theres lots of very useful information in an easy to read and uncomplicated style- such as not to 'frame' teeth, to avoid harsh lines but to shade to them, to capture the light going through the cornea of the eye, how to draw a nose etc. I found it excellent.
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