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You Can Draw Amazing Faces
This guide shows how to draw the different parts of the face - eye, mouth, nose - both separately as well as in proportion to the face as a whole. The book also describes how to age and give expression to the face that is being drawn. Photographs guide the artist through the different stages of drawing. The book is one of a series that introduces children to the basic techniques of drawing. Each book concentrates on a particular subject and suggests different ways in which the drawing of that subject can be tackled. Step-by-step sequences and tips about technique and materials aim to help the young artist achieve impressive results.
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21 pages, Paperback
First published August 1, 1997
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April 27, 2016
Gamble, Kim. You Can Draw: Amazing Faces. New York, New York, D.K. Publising, Inc. 1997
How-To Book
Targeted roughly for 3rd through 6th graders, but the book can be used for anyone from about age 8 upward, as long there is an interest in drawing.
As the name would imply, this book gives step-by-step directions on how to draw faces. It works it's way up from basics, like shapes and lines to features and expressions. Then progressively adds increasing detail and difficulty like light and shading, caricatures, hats and glasses, etc. It ends with drawing faces at different angles and then gets into materials and techniques.
While this is definitely and how-to book, I would say this is a book for someone who is really and truly dedicated to learning how to draw faces. In fact, I might even say this book would be better for someone who has already had some moderate drawing instruction. The reason I say this is that while it does go through steps, the examples and steps are not really all that easy, in my opinion. I believe it would take a great deal of practice to end up with pictures they show as the completed product. Even more difficult than the basic face are the drawings the show for individual features like eyes or mouth. Again, I believe it would take a great deal of practice to end up with a drawing that looks like there. I guess what I'm saying is, maybe this is not quite a book for the beginning artist, but for someone who already has at least some basic skills, and wants to improve or expand what they can do.
In summary, I would rate this as a useful book for someone who already has some background in drawing, but I would rate this much lower as a truly beginners how-to book.
How-To Book
Targeted roughly for 3rd through 6th graders, but the book can be used for anyone from about age 8 upward, as long there is an interest in drawing.
As the name would imply, this book gives step-by-step directions on how to draw faces. It works it's way up from basics, like shapes and lines to features and expressions. Then progressively adds increasing detail and difficulty like light and shading, caricatures, hats and glasses, etc. It ends with drawing faces at different angles and then gets into materials and techniques.
While this is definitely and how-to book, I would say this is a book for someone who is really and truly dedicated to learning how to draw faces. In fact, I might even say this book would be better for someone who has already had some moderate drawing instruction. The reason I say this is that while it does go through steps, the examples and steps are not really all that easy, in my opinion. I believe it would take a great deal of practice to end up with pictures they show as the completed product. Even more difficult than the basic face are the drawings the show for individual features like eyes or mouth. Again, I believe it would take a great deal of practice to end up with a drawing that looks like there. I guess what I'm saying is, maybe this is not quite a book for the beginning artist, but for someone who already has at least some basic skills, and wants to improve or expand what they can do.
In summary, I would rate this as a useful book for someone who already has some background in drawing, but I would rate this much lower as a truly beginners how-to book.
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