Face Parts: A Practical Source Book for Depicting the Human Face

by Simon Jennings

A complement to Body Parts compiles photographic references of various poses and features, more than one thousand color illustrations, instructional advice, tips on dealing with proportion, and a review of basic anatomy in understanding how to portray the human face. Original.

Genres: Art

191 pages, Paperback

First published October 15, 2008

Reviews

[Robert Waterman · Rating 4 out of 5]

Not a bad book. It's not all that organized, but it does show some things I had never noticed about faces before.

[Les Wolf · Rating 4 out of 5]

One of the better books that I have found so far on drawing and painting portraits.

[Elizabeth Grieve · Rating 2 out of 5]

Despite the many illustrations this book is not very useful, and most of them seem to be 'padding'. You could find similar or better information in most figure drawing books. There are many better books about portraits, for example the William Powell book 'Colour Mixing Recipes for Portraits' is actually much more helpful in learning how to paint eyes, lips etc.

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[Larry Johnson · Rating 4 out of 5]

A great book for artists to keep on hand for references to help with portrait work. I used it to do a lot of sketches as practice and found it helpful. It would've been better with actual tutorials for some of it. I'm sure I'll use this again whenever I'm having trouble with a certain area of a portrait. The small section on painting a portrait was also helpful in preparing to do a painting as it is something I haven't tried yet.

[Sonya · Rating 5 out of 5]

Really enjoyed this book- the work is good and has some best practices that are easy to follow.