Drawing Expressive Portraits

by Paul Leveille

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

   • 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

Genres: Art, Nonfiction, Drawing

Paperback

First published September 30, 1996

Reviews

[Cecilia · Rating 5 out of 5]

Best book I've read so far on portrait drawing. Well done, easy to digest, with one main concept per page.

[Julie L · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fantastic portrait style, helpful tips, a few different mediums.