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Artist′s Complete Guide to Facial Expression, The

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The Artist's Complete Guide to Facial Expression is a definitive resource for artists aiming to capture the full range of human emotion in their work. Gary Faigin breaks down expressions by individual facial muscles and builds up to illustrate the six basic emotions: sadness, anger, joy, fear, disgust, and surprise. With detailed renderings, clear explanations, sketches, and finished artwork, it provides practical guidance to create lifelike portraits and convincing illustrations.
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Ideal for artists and illustrators seeking to improve their understanding and depiction of facial expressions and emotions in their artwork.

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Suitable for artists, this guide captures facial expressions. It shows readers the expressions created by individual facial muscles, then draws them together in a section devoted to the six basic human emotions: sadness, anger, joy, fear, disgust and surprise.

Want to show the range of human emotion in your artwork? Get The Artist's Complete Guide to Facial Expression!

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Want to show the range of human emotion in your artwork? Get The Artist's Complete Guide to Facial Expression!

Artists love this book, the definitive guide to capturing facial expressions. In a carefully organised, easy-to-use format, author Gary Faigin shows readers the expressions created by individual facial muscles, then draws them together in a section devoted to the six basic human emotions: sadness, anger, joy, fear, disgust, and surprise.

Each emotion is shown in steadily increasing intensity, and Faigin's detailed renderings are supplemented by clear explanatory text, additional sketches, and finished work. An appendix includes yawning, wincing, and other physical reactions.

Want to create portraits that capture the real person? Want to draw convincing illustrations? Want to show the range of human emotion in your artwork? Get The Artist's Complete Guide to Facial Expression!

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780823004324

Publisher: Watson-Guptill Publications

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 19 August 2008

Country: United States

Imprint: Watson-Guptill Publications Inc.,U.S.

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 21.0mm

Width: 209.0mm

Height: 275.0mm

Weight: 894g

Pages: 288

About the Author

Gary Faigin trained at the Art Students League and the Ecole des Beaux Arts de Paris. He has taught at the National Academy School of Design and at Parsons School of Design; currently, he is the artistic director of the Gage Academy of Art in Seattle, where he lives.

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