Drawing Expressive Portraits

This guide encourages students to "forget about creating a likeness" and concentrate on seeing and drawing the big shapes of dark and light, so the likeness will follow. It teaches: basic pencil and charcoal techniques and how to communicate various facial expressions in different poses and light.

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This guide encourages you to forget about creating a likeness, and instead, to concentrate on seeing and drawing the big shapes of dark and light. The likenesses will follow. In a clear, step-by-step format, with the help of nine start-to-finish portrait demonstrations, you will learn: * Easy, basic pencil and charcoal techniques * How to draw each feature of the face * How to communicate various facial expressions * Techniques for working from live models * How to draw a variety of people, different poses and lighting conditions