Product Description
by Daniel Stern (Author)
This book contains step-by-step instructions, tips and techniques on how to portraits for the beginner or intermediate artist. In this book you will learn: - How to think like an artist - why you are unique, and how and why you need to retrain your mind to unleash your potential to become a professional artist. - The best materials to use - types of paper, pencils, erasers, blenders and so on. - Drawing and Shading - Refining your lines; Breaking down nature into its basic fundamental shapes. - How to depict tonal gradations in your art. - Important landmarks of the face. - Subtle differences between male and female, old and young, among different races. -How to use a Proportional Sketch or Grid Sketch in your make-or-break initial layout. -Important tips to ensure an accurate resemblance of your subject in your pencil portraits. -How to create those extra touches to establish your style and ensure your portraits stand out
Author Biography
Daniel Stern has been handling a pencil for as long as he can remember...from watching his dad teach sketching and painting to his college students, to the informal still life drawing assignments he got every week in childhood, as well as some formal art education in high school. Fast forward two decades later, and he's still holding a pencil (and sometimes a paintbrush). He desires to transfer some of the skills - and passion - for art he has built over the years, from his dad as well as from numerous other mentors and books he has absorbed since then.
