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Draw Amazing Faces: Learn the Basics and Develop Your Own Style
Create stunning portraits while developing your own remarkable artistic style with this practical, inspiring, and easy-to-follow guide.
Draw Amazing Faces is your go-to reference for crafting stunning portraits from scratch. Join Pypah Santos, the celebrated artist and YouTube sensation, as she shares the following:
-Step-by-step guidance for constructing heads from diverse angles, mastering proportions, sketching facial features, and eliciting a spectrum of expressions
-Techniques for both male and female faces of different ages
-Signature techniques for rendering hair, including different types, textures, and styles
-Shading and rendering techniques that infuse vitality into your portraits
-Inspiration for developing your distinct style in portraying fantastic faces
-QR codes linked to videos that further demonstrate important techniques
This is your passport to the captivating world of portraiture. With Santos’s expertise, you will master the intricacies of portraying faces using her straightforward techniques. Whether you’re a fine artist, illustrator, or comic book artist, you will elevate your artistry, infuse life into your sketches, and uncover your distinct style—all while honing your ability to create awe-inspiring, lifelike faces.
Draw Amazing Faces is your go-to reference for crafting stunning portraits from scratch. Join Pypah Santos, the celebrated artist and YouTube sensation, as she shares the following:
-Step-by-step guidance for constructing heads from diverse angles, mastering proportions, sketching facial features, and eliciting a spectrum of expressions
-Techniques for both male and female faces of different ages
-Signature techniques for rendering hair, including different types, textures, and styles
-Shading and rendering techniques that infuse vitality into your portraits
-Inspiration for developing your distinct style in portraying fantastic faces
-QR codes linked to videos that further demonstrate important techniques
This is your passport to the captivating world of portraiture. With Santos’s expertise, you will master the intricacies of portraying faces using her straightforward techniques. Whether you’re a fine artist, illustrator, or comic book artist, you will elevate your artistry, infuse life into your sketches, and uncover your distinct style—all while honing your ability to create awe-inspiring, lifelike faces.
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144 pages, Paperback
Published October 22, 2024
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December 23, 2024
Thanks to Quarry Books who allowed me to read a DARC of Draw Amazing Faces by Pypah Santos.
The book consists of a short introduction, eleven chapters covering, in order, Santos' approach, proportions and perspective, shading, lighting and rendering, drawing the eyes, nose, mouth, ears and hair, putting it all together, faces in color, and further practice, ending with a 2-page index.
Though the art style is not my personal favourite, there are lots of great drawings throughout. The book is well laid out with helpful in-depth tutorials, both the illustrations and text clearly explaining things. I particularly liked that Santos showed examples of rendering faces in different mediums, and covered the box method in addition to the same basic techniques usually shown in books of this ilk.
I really liked this book and will be buying a copy to add to my art shelf.
The book consists of a short introduction, eleven chapters covering, in order, Santos' approach, proportions and perspective, shading, lighting and rendering, drawing the eyes, nose, mouth, ears and hair, putting it all together, faces in color, and further practice, ending with a 2-page index.
Though the art style is not my personal favourite, there are lots of great drawings throughout. The book is well laid out with helpful in-depth tutorials, both the illustrations and text clearly explaining things. I particularly liked that Santos showed examples of rendering faces in different mediums, and covered the box method in addition to the same basic techniques usually shown in books of this ilk.
I really liked this book and will be buying a copy to add to my art shelf.
September 7, 2025
Fantastic book for facial drawing...highly recommended!!
...and I own, and have read a TON of these books (about how to draw faces or facial features). Some are better than others, but drawing faces is my main passion, so I try to read all I can on facial or portrait drawing.
THIS is the one you should buy, whether you're a beginner, or just want some more face inspiration!
It has very clear directions, giving you all of the tools you need to begin to practice drawing faces. Starting with a pencil and learning shading this way was the best thing I did to get some skills down before jumping into any kind of color...at the time I didn't know if it was right, I was a beginner making stabs in the dark (still am)!
...and I own, and have read a TON of these books (about how to draw faces or facial features). Some are better than others, but drawing faces is my main passion, so I try to read all I can on facial or portrait drawing.
THIS is the one you should buy, whether you're a beginner, or just want some more face inspiration!
It has very clear directions, giving you all of the tools you need to begin to practice drawing faces. Starting with a pencil and learning shading this way was the best thing I did to get some skills down before jumping into any kind of color...at the time I didn't know if it was right, I was a beginner making stabs in the dark (still am)!
February 2, 2025
4.5⭐️
Just finished reading this book, now I actually have to practice portraiture. 💛
Just finished reading this book, now I actually have to practice portraiture. 💛
June 25, 2025
wish the videos it linked to were better
September 3, 2025
this was really beginner-friendly which helped
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