Drawing and Painting Expressive Little Faces by Amarilys Henderson

Drawing and Painting Expressive Little Faces by Amarilys Henderson ISBN-13: 9781631598654 Paperback: 144 pages Publisher: Quarry Books Released: February 18, 2020

Source: ebook review copy from the publisher through NetGalley.

Book Description, Modified from Goodreads:
In Drawing and Painting Expressive Little Faces, artist and popular Skillshare instructor Amarilys Henderson shares her practical and creative techniques for drawing and painting faces with style and personality. Gather supplies, including watercolor, graphite pencils, ink, and markers. Use photos to simplify the face’s key elements, learn about facial proportions and factors and variables for placing facial features. Learn about the five basic facial shapes and how to modify the chin line, ears, and hairline, and how to draw and paint mouths, eyes, and noses and make alterations to show pose and personality. Navigate the process from start to finish, learn to adjust line quality to suggest different genders and ethnicities, and change up artistic styling to put a unique spin on your creations. Try out some project ideas: party invitations, repeat patterns, comic books, and more!


My Review:
Drawing and Painting Expressive Little Faces is an art instruction book about creating somewhat stylized faces with marker, pencil, and watercolor. For each part of the face, the author showed how to make a very simple version and then how to add detail with just another mark to create more and more detailed variations. She talked about the proportions of a face and how to create the basic facial shapes, ears, eyes, noses, mouths, and hair. She then showed how to put these elements together to create a unique face along with adding accessories. She talked some about how to create different skin tones, though she's not highly realistic with skin or hair color. She also suggested ways to use these expressive faces in urban sketching, personalized cards, etc. Overall, I'd recommend this book to teens and adults who want to learn how to draw and watercolor paint somewhat stylized but expressive faces.


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