How to Draw Heads and Portraits
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 13
9780823023578
Category
Publication Year
1989
Publisher
Subject
Art
Description
This book begins with essential information about skull characteristics andead construction. Next, the author presents the canon of the human head, theystem that delineates correct placement and proportion of all facialeatures, allowing for differences based on age and sex. Individual facialeatures - eyebrows and eyes, nose and ears, mouth and lips - are analyzed inetail. Throughout the book the emphasis is on achieving a good, naturalikeness, which involves studying the model in depth. Included is practicalnformation on setting up the work, lighting and posing the model,omposition, background, and appropriate format sizes. Step-by-stepemonstrations include creating a portrait using chalk, and making aelf-portrait.
Number of Copies
1