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Portrait Drawing for Kids: A Step-by-Step Guide to Drawing Faces
Draw the people and faces around you—a guide to portrait drawing for kids 9 to 12
Anyone can take a picture—but drawing a person with recognizable likeness takes practice. Portrait drawing offers a completely unique interpretation of your subject, and Portrait Drawing for Kids gives budding artists the skill set they need to draw pictures of themselves, their family, and friends.
Broken down into simple, step-by-step instructions, this book will teach you every aspect of portraiture, from features of the face, to capturing emotions, to techniques like shading and highlighting. This drawing for kids book will help you take your artistic talents to the next level—beginning with a sharpened pencil.
Portrait Drawing for Kids
Interested in a drawing for kids book but not sure where to start? Portrait Drawing for Kids is ideal for budding artists!
Anyone can take a picture—but drawing a person with recognizable likeness takes practice. Portrait drawing offers a completely unique interpretation of your subject, and Portrait Drawing for Kids gives budding artists the skill set they need to draw pictures of themselves, their family, and friends.
Broken down into simple, step-by-step instructions, this book will teach you every aspect of portraiture, from features of the face, to capturing emotions, to techniques like shading and highlighting. This drawing for kids book will help you take your artistic talents to the next level—beginning with a sharpened pencil.
Portrait Drawing for Kids
Interested in a drawing for kids book but not sure where to start? Portrait Drawing for Kids is ideal for budding artists!
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104 pages, Paperback
Published May 19, 2020
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June 29, 2020
I chose to read this book after receiving a free copy from the publisher. All opinions in this review are my own and completely unbiased.
Although it says that this book is for ages 9-12, I think that any age will learn a lot from this book. All you need is a pencil and an eraser and something to draw on. She gives a list of other tools that would be nice to have on hand, but they’re not necessary, especially to begin with.
Portrait Drawing for kids begins with the basics. First, framing the face, then adding the eyes and eyebrows and finally, the nose and mouth. The last thing under basics are expressions, which are a little more difficult than just drawing an expressionless face.
Once you have the basics of the face down, the book goes into more advanced things such as ears and hair, profiles, shading, etc. Toward the end, she shows a few portraits from history followed by how to draw your own portraits.
There is so much detailed information in Portrait Drawing for kids that one thing needed is patience. It takes a lot of practice to get good at something. There are a lot of pages dedicated to practice and those should be taken advantage of (over and over).
I recommend Portrait Drawing for Kids for anyone of any age who wants to learn more about drawing people.
Although it says that this book is for ages 9-12, I think that any age will learn a lot from this book. All you need is a pencil and an eraser and something to draw on. She gives a list of other tools that would be nice to have on hand, but they’re not necessary, especially to begin with.
Portrait Drawing for kids begins with the basics. First, framing the face, then adding the eyes and eyebrows and finally, the nose and mouth. The last thing under basics are expressions, which are a little more difficult than just drawing an expressionless face.
Once you have the basics of the face down, the book goes into more advanced things such as ears and hair, profiles, shading, etc. Toward the end, she shows a few portraits from history followed by how to draw your own portraits.
There is so much detailed information in Portrait Drawing for kids that one thing needed is patience. It takes a lot of practice to get good at something. There are a lot of pages dedicated to practice and those should be taken advantage of (over and over).
I recommend Portrait Drawing for Kids for anyone of any age who wants to learn more about drawing people.
May 19, 2020
You can tell when an author has true passion for their subject and this book shows this perfectly.
This book is ideal for any child that just wants something to do. No special tools are needed, as you can have as little as a scrap of paper and a nubby pencil to begin!!! The author takes simple facial features to start and then builds on that to an entire face. She shows the step by step process in drawing facial proportions, angling, and other add-ons as well. The trick is ... to JUST BEGIN. Start and try!!! That's it and you will see lovely results!
While the book says recommended ages 9 to 12, I would even say a child as young as 5 or an adult as old as 100 could easily benefit from this book. Art has no age restrictions. You can follow the step by step instructions and with practice be extremely proud of what you can make.
I received a complimentary copy of this book from Callisto Publishers/Rockridge Press and was under no obligation to post a review.
This book is ideal for any child that just wants something to do. No special tools are needed, as you can have as little as a scrap of paper and a nubby pencil to begin!!! The author takes simple facial features to start and then builds on that to an entire face. She shows the step by step process in drawing facial proportions, angling, and other add-ons as well. The trick is ... to JUST BEGIN. Start and try!!! That's it and you will see lovely results!
While the book says recommended ages 9 to 12, I would even say a child as young as 5 or an adult as old as 100 could easily benefit from this book. Art has no age restrictions. You can follow the step by step instructions and with practice be extremely proud of what you can make.
I received a complimentary copy of this book from Callisto Publishers/Rockridge Press and was under no obligation to post a review.
May 20, 2020
Originally published on my blog: Nonstop Reader.
Portrait Drawing for Kids: A Step-by-Step Guide to Drawing Faces is a tutorial drawing guide for portraiture by Angela Rizza. Released 19th May 2020 by Callisto on their Rockridge Press imprint, it's 210 pages and available in paperback and ebook formats. It's worth noting that the ebook format has a handy interactive table of contents as well as interactive links. I've really become enamored of ebooks with interactive formats lately. For Kindle Unlimited subscribers this book is currently included in the KU subscription library to borrow and read for free.
The book has an appealing and very accessible layout. The basics of proportion, setting up the facial outline, framing the face, and the eyes, ears, nose, mouth, and other features are covered in the comprehensive first part. The details of rendering and detailing the portrait includes shading, background, profiles, and a little portrait history. Each of the detail subjects is covered in an upbeat and easy to follow tutorial activity.
Obviously, acquiring any skill takes practice, but this book will be a nice resource for anyone (not just kids) to pick up a pencil and start their journey. Great selection for a gift for a young artist, perhaps with some added sketch pads and pencils. This would also make a superlative classroom or library book.I would also recommend this book to babysitters, grandparents, parents, and basically anyone who spends a fair bit of time with small kids in order to up their 'draw with me' game.
Five stars. Fun collection.
Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes.
Portrait Drawing for Kids: A Step-by-Step Guide to Drawing Faces is a tutorial drawing guide for portraiture by Angela Rizza. Released 19th May 2020 by Callisto on their Rockridge Press imprint, it's 210 pages and available in paperback and ebook formats. It's worth noting that the ebook format has a handy interactive table of contents as well as interactive links. I've really become enamored of ebooks with interactive formats lately. For Kindle Unlimited subscribers this book is currently included in the KU subscription library to borrow and read for free.
The book has an appealing and very accessible layout. The basics of proportion, setting up the facial outline, framing the face, and the eyes, ears, nose, mouth, and other features are covered in the comprehensive first part. The details of rendering and detailing the portrait includes shading, background, profiles, and a little portrait history. Each of the detail subjects is covered in an upbeat and easy to follow tutorial activity.
Obviously, acquiring any skill takes practice, but this book will be a nice resource for anyone (not just kids) to pick up a pencil and start their journey. Great selection for a gift for a young artist, perhaps with some added sketch pads and pencils. This would also make a superlative classroom or library book.I would also recommend this book to babysitters, grandparents, parents, and basically anyone who spends a fair bit of time with small kids in order to up their 'draw with me' game.
Five stars. Fun collection.
Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes.
May 25, 2020
"Portrait Drawing for Kids" is an art instruction book for beginners at drawing human faces with graphite pencil. The targeted age range is 9 to 12 years old, but I think it would be most useful for teenagers and adults since it assumes a certain level of focus and observational skills. In each chapter, she taught a new concept and then demonstrated how to draw it using six illustrated steps with brief text instructions for each step. She then provided three practice pages which simply showed the six steps with no new instructions. These practice faces would be at different angles and be both male and female and different ethnicities.
The author started by looking at the basic facial shape and how the face changes when you view it from the front, side, three quarters view, etc. Then she covered eyes and eyebrows, nose and mouth, different expressions, shading and how it changes based on the direction of the light source, adding ears, necks, hair, beards, and glasses. She then had you practice by doing different activities (with explanations on how to pose or otherwise do these activities), like drawing yourself, your friends, profiles, and group portraits. She also had you look at different portrait styles throughout history and try some of those styles. Overall, I would recommend this book to beginners at drawing faces, but I was confused by why she didn't better explain how to get an individuals facial portions correct.
I received a review copy of this book from the publisher.
The author started by looking at the basic facial shape and how the face changes when you view it from the front, side, three quarters view, etc. Then she covered eyes and eyebrows, nose and mouth, different expressions, shading and how it changes based on the direction of the light source, adding ears, necks, hair, beards, and glasses. She then had you practice by doing different activities (with explanations on how to pose or otherwise do these activities), like drawing yourself, your friends, profiles, and group portraits. She also had you look at different portrait styles throughout history and try some of those styles. Overall, I would recommend this book to beginners at drawing faces, but I was confused by why she didn't better explain how to get an individuals facial portions correct.
I received a review copy of this book from the publisher.
May 23, 2020
As an artist want-to-be “faces” have always seemed daunting to me. In fact, abstract painting calls my attention because I wouldn’t have to get the face “right”. Well along comes Portrait Drawing for Kids. Of course, I’m not a “kid” but as far as drawing faces, I might as well be one.
Rizza’s statement in the introduction calls my attention and gives me hope. “Remember that nobody learns without making mistakes, trying new things, and leaping out of their comfort zones.” I can make mistakes with the best of them and enjoy trying new things. So, I’m looking at jumping out of my comfort zone and seeing if I can in fact master this issue. Since, this is a review before I have finished my mastery, I’ll have to get back to you on how it all has worked out.
Rizza makes it look easy. Follow a few simple instructions and… Well it is not as easy as that, but she has laid out a step-by-step process to help budding portrait artist master this skill. She explains the nuances and walks the reader through the issues they will face. She expands the options and gives us some secrets which will help us. The rest is practice and that is up to us.
Upon request, the publisher, with no preset conditions, sent me a copy of the book to review.
Rizza’s statement in the introduction calls my attention and gives me hope. “Remember that nobody learns without making mistakes, trying new things, and leaping out of their comfort zones.” I can make mistakes with the best of them and enjoy trying new things. So, I’m looking at jumping out of my comfort zone and seeing if I can in fact master this issue. Since, this is a review before I have finished my mastery, I’ll have to get back to you on how it all has worked out.
Rizza makes it look easy. Follow a few simple instructions and… Well it is not as easy as that, but she has laid out a step-by-step process to help budding portrait artist master this skill. She explains the nuances and walks the reader through the issues they will face. She expands the options and gives us some secrets which will help us. The rest is practice and that is up to us.
Upon request, the publisher, with no preset conditions, sent me a copy of the book to review.
May 15, 2020
This is from the same author that did “Figure Drawing for Kids” my teenager learned a lot in that book. I was very excited when I seen this book from Angela Rizza.
This is a nice step-by-step book for older kids and adults wanting to learn to draw portraits. The instructions are very concise and easy to follow. It goes over a lot of details like framing faces. It covers a variety of face shapes both front and side views of the face. Then it gets into more details with eyes, eyebrows, noses, mouth, and expression. It has faces you can practice on. The whole book provides a lot of places to practice.
A few other skills taught are shading. Beyond the face to help with the neck area, hair, ears, and adding in clothing, glasses, and hats. Another feature is a selfie section to practice drawing yourself with tips about lightning and props.
There is even a section on Portraits through the ages talking about the different styles and media. The book has so much more. I am really impressed with the details and the step-by-step instructions.
I received a copy of this product in exchange for my honest review. I was not required to write a positive review.
This is a nice step-by-step book for older kids and adults wanting to learn to draw portraits. The instructions are very concise and easy to follow. It goes over a lot of details like framing faces. It covers a variety of face shapes both front and side views of the face. Then it gets into more details with eyes, eyebrows, noses, mouth, and expression. It has faces you can practice on. The whole book provides a lot of places to practice.
A few other skills taught are shading. Beyond the face to help with the neck area, hair, ears, and adding in clothing, glasses, and hats. Another feature is a selfie section to practice drawing yourself with tips about lightning and props.
There is even a section on Portraits through the ages talking about the different styles and media. The book has so much more. I am really impressed with the details and the step-by-step instructions.
I received a copy of this product in exchange for my honest review. I was not required to write a positive review.
May 12, 2020
This book carries on from 'Figure Drawing for Kids' but it is not essential that you have completed that book first before this one. The author admits there was no space in the first book for details on portraits etc. Now, in this book, the author goes into WAY more detail!
Whilst I understand that it this book is being marketed to 9-12 year olds, older kids AND adults could well learn a LOT from this! Wow! This book is very well done and laid out in a way that is easy to follow with step-by-step guidance. In fact, some kids in the specified age range could well be overwhelmed by this book as the finished art is VERY detailed.
If you have artistic desire but lack a teacher go for this one! Her ideas and methods make sense. VERY impressed. I was provided a copy of the book by the publisher. Thanks, Liz
Whilst I understand that it this book is being marketed to 9-12 year olds, older kids AND adults could well learn a LOT from this! Wow! This book is very well done and laid out in a way that is easy to follow with step-by-step guidance. In fact, some kids in the specified age range could well be overwhelmed by this book as the finished art is VERY detailed.
If you have artistic desire but lack a teacher go for this one! Her ideas and methods make sense. VERY impressed. I was provided a copy of the book by the publisher. Thanks, Liz
May 16, 2020
This book shows how to get correct proportions when drawing faces, gives several examples of how to draw individual facial features and expressions, and has plenty of practice pages throughout. Once the basic features have been practiced, Rizza shows how to put it all together, add shading etc.
While this book says it's marketed for 9 - 12 year old children, I think it is better suited to teenagers and adults. A 3.5 star review from me.
I received a complimentary copy of this book from the RockRidgePress in their hope I would voluntarily write a review. No review was required. This review is unbiased and all opinions expressed are my own.
While this book says it's marketed for 9 - 12 year old children, I think it is better suited to teenagers and adults. A 3.5 star review from me.
I received a complimentary copy of this book from the RockRidgePress in their hope I would voluntarily write a review. No review was required. This review is unbiased and all opinions expressed are my own.
May 11, 2020
I received a copy of this book directly from the publisher/author in exchange for an honest review.
Portrait Drawing For Kids by Angela Rizza is a great starter art book for children or beginning artists looking to get into drawing portraits. I found it contained a lot of portrait examples as well as useful examples on light, shading, individual features, form, and white space exercises. As an experienced portrait artist myself, I can confidently say that this is a good place to get some solid beginner info.
Portrait Drawing For Kids by Angela Rizza is a great starter art book for children or beginning artists looking to get into drawing portraits. I found it contained a lot of portrait examples as well as useful examples on light, shading, individual features, form, and white space exercises. As an experienced portrait artist myself, I can confidently say that this is a good place to get some solid beginner info.
May 8, 2020
I received a complimentary copy.
The steps look fairly simple but this will take lots of practice unless you are a natural or have been drawing for a long time.
The steps look fairly simple but this will take lots of practice unless you are a natural or have been drawing for a long time.
May 15, 2020
Absolutely wonderful guided drawing book! My daughter loves to draw and this is perfect for portrait tips!
January 10, 2021
Not just for kids
I've found this book helpful as an adult learning how to draw faces and shading, and I do recommend to anyone for any of these skills offered in this book.
I've found this book helpful as an adult learning how to draw faces and shading, and I do recommend to anyone for any of these skills offered in this book.
May 15, 2021
i read this book as a subscriber of kindle unlimited .. good for beginners
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