From the Actor
For many years, students in my portrait classes have asked me to write a book on portrait drawing and painting. I elected not to write about portraits because, more than any other subject, I feel the instruction needs to be visual rather than written. There are already many fine books on the market which provide excellent illustrations and articulate descriptions of the drawing process and I own most of them myself.
It has been my experience, however, that the written word becomes much more meaningful to a student after they have experienced the hands-on practice of drawing the head. It is very much like trying to learn to play a musical instrument by just reading about it. It just won't happen. You must put your hands on the instrument to learn to play it and, in drawing, that instrument is charcoal and paper.
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The most illusive and powerful of all painting subjects is the human face and head. While you might not wish to paint portraits or likenesses, you might find it useful to be able to put faces and features on figures that grace your landscape or interior compositions.
This video will give you the building blocks to begin drawing heads convincingly, whether they're invented characters or real people. As with any complicated task, it becomes easy once you know the steps to tackle it. And once learned, you may wonder why you thought drawing people to be so difficult!
Join Johnnie in this video and see how easy it is to draw the features of the face. Learn how the three views (full face, three-quarters, and profile) are related to one another. Soon, beautiful and interesting faces will begin appearing in your drawings and paintings.
