Drawing: Faces & Features: Learn to Draw Step by Step

Draw or Paint, step-by-step

by Debra Kaufman Yaun

Successfully drawing the human face is one of the most challenging yet rewarding artistic experiences. In this step-by-step book, Debra Kauffman Yaun invites you into her artistic world as she shows you how to draw a variety of portraits in pencil. She shares her personal methods for rendering the human face in all its expressiveness as she introduces tips and techniques for approaching babies, children, teenagers, and adults of all ages. The book includes in-depth information on specific facial features as well as detailed, step-by-step exercises that explore ways to develop complete portraits. And the wealth of beautiful, inspiring examples ensure that Faces & Features will be a welcome addition to any artist’s drawing reference library

Genres: Art, Nonfiction, Drawing, Childrens, Reference

32 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2006

Reviews

[Briar · Rating 4 out of 5]

I’m coming at this from the perspective of a total beginner. I’ve tried to draw a little bit by myself and that’s the extent of my experience and knowledge. Having said that, I thought this book was really good and to give quite a broad introduction to the whole area of drawing. It’s focussed specifically on faces, of course, but I feel as though it wouldn’t be too hard, once you understood the techniques, to transfer them to other things.

I was a bit thrown at first because there only seemed to be a page or two about each section, or aspect, I’m not sure of the right word. But after a while I realised that what this book does is to introduce a whole range of ideas to you and go over them thoroughly but in quite a basic way. This way, you can practise what’s in the book but you can also read more detailed books – or look online for further related techniques, and so on. The book gives you a sort of grounding in everything, as far as I can tell.

So, for example, there are precisely two pages on shading techniques, which doesn’t seem like a lot. There’s a little bit of text giving you various useful tips, then some diagrams demonstrating some ways of shading and ways to use it, plus a box showing how different pencils affect how shading works. It’s all quite basic and it’s very obvious that there’s a lot more that could be said on the subject. Yet just those two pages give you plenty to practise and consider without completely overloading a total beginner.

The rest of the sections follow a similar structure, giving you enough information to make a decent start and plenty of things to work on. This book seems to me to be a really excellent starting point, and I’m looking forward to trying out some of the tips and suggestions.

[Pink Leaf · Rating 5 out of 5]

Awesome drawing book. Great for children or anyone.

[Tara Blais Davison · Rating 4 out of 5]

4/5 Very good beginners book.

[Nozqa · Rating 4 out of 5]

i never know how precious this book is to my drawing ability. this is a must-have-book if you're graphic design student. i used to learn model drawings in college and this book was a helpful company.