Walter Foster's classic How to Draw and Paint series provides aspiring artists with an exceptional array of art instruction books featuring all subject areas and media. Each title includes easy step-by-step exercises as well as finished illustrations or paintings that will inspire artistic talent in anyone.
Packed with practical information, helpful tips, and fundamental techniques, the How to Draw and Paint series offers a complete library of resources to which artists of all skill levels can refer again and again.
What you'll learn from this book ...
• The step-by-step process of drawing and painting faces in a variety of mediums
• Guidelines for correctly placing features in relation to each other
• The structural differences between male and female faces
• How to give faces character and personality with small details
• Methods for accentuating features and creating shadows through light and dark values
• Helpful tips for rendering eyes in a number of expressions
• Specific considerations for creating works in acrylic, oil, pastel, and pencil
