A classic of simplicity! Portrait Drawing has guided and inspired a generation of artists to create beautiful, realistic portraits. In just eighty pages, author Wendon Blake covers all the basics, from papers and pencils to drawing eyes, nose, mouth, ears, and head from every angle. Drawings by artist John Lawn illustrate each point clearly, making it easy to master the basics and move on to conveying expression and emotion. Ten “demonstrations” show exactly how to put everything together for portraits that are more than the sum of their parts. Easy to understand, easy to use, this 25th Anniversary edition of Portrait Drawing, newly updated for today’s artists, shows the quick, rewarding way to master the fundamentals of a favorite genre.
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Wendon Blake is the author of many popular instructional books on painting and drawing. He lives in upstate New York.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
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Too brief a treatment of the subject,
By Bruce Bain "Romans 9:33/Remember Jackie Robinson" (Englewood, CO United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)
This review is from: Portrait Drawing: A Step-By-Step Art Instruction Book (Artist's Painting Library) (Paperback)
"Portrait Drawing" by Wendon Blake (drawings by John Lawn),Watson-Guptill Publications List Price $9.95 Wendon Blake shows himself to be a very good instructor, but as is true of most of his works, his books generally are too brief, too short treatments of drawing, whether figure, portraiture or painting. This book, for example, contains only 175 illustrations. When other books offer much more illustration, it becomes difficult to rate "Portrait Drawing" higher. What is there though, is quite good.
8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
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This book is by far the biggest waste of money and time I've encountered recently. It covers none of the basics of drawing human portraits - no proportions, no placement of features. It's simply a narrative of what "the artist" is doing at the moment. I was bored silly by the book, didn't get anything out of it, and the cover isn't even pretty enough for a coffee table book. I would not recommend this book to anyone who wants to learn portrait drawing. However, if you are troubled with insomnia, this may be a good choice.
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Excellent instructional material for beginning artists. Easy to use and follow. Would recommend to family or friends.
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Keep It Simple. The best way to start drawing is to get yourself just two things: a pencil and a pad of white drawing paper about twice the size of the page you're now reading. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
eraser brightens, artist darkens, slender strokes, medium charcoal pencil, sandpaper pad, slanted cylinder, rectangular stick, hard pastel, artist blends, natural charcoal, curving strokes, cylindrical stick, parallel strokes, bare paper, compressed charcoal, horizontal guidelines, artist blocks, look rounder, vertical center line, artist presses, charcoal paper, sketchy lines, tonal areas, charcoal stick, thick strokes Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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Keep It Simple. The best way to start drawing is to get yourself just two things: a pencil and a pad of white drawing paper about twice the size of the page you're now reading. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
eraser brightens, artist darkens, slender strokes, medium charcoal pencil, sandpaper pad, slanted cylinder, rectangular stick, hard pastel, artist blends, natural charcoal, curving strokes, cylindrical stick, parallel strokes, bare paper, compressed charcoal, horizontal guidelines, artist blocks, look rounder, vertical center line, artist presses, charcoal paper, sketchy lines, tonal areas, charcoal stick, thick strokes Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Continuous Tone, Head Shape New!
Books on Related Topics | Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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