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Drawing Using Grids: Portraits of Babies & Children

By Giovanni Civardi
Series: Drawing Using Grids
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The book Drawing Using Grids: Portraits of Babies & Children by Giovanni Civardi offers a detailed guide to portrait drawing techniques using grids. It caters specifically to capturing the delicate features of babies and children, providing step-by-step instructions to help artists improve their skills in this unique aspect of portraiture. Aspiring artists will find valuable insights and practical advice to refine their artistic abilities.
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You might like this book if you're interested in learning to capture the delicate and expressive features of babies and children through art. This guide by Giovanni Civardi explores the grid method, offering step-by-step instructions and techniques that can enhance your drawing skills. Perfect for both beginners and experienced artists, it provides a valuable resource for anyone looking to improve their portraiture with detailed and structured guidance.

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Drawing Using Grids: Portraits of Babies & Children

'Its devastatingly simple and disarmingly effective.' The Artist, Summer 2018 - for the full review please see below.

The go-to drawing guide for quick, easy and impressive child portraiture.

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From world-renowned artist Giovanni Civardi, this highly practical guide to drawing babies and children uses the traditional grid technique to make the drawing process both simple and accessible.

Starting from a photograph, Civardi shows you how to create an accurate pencil sketch of the subject by overlaying a grid and transferring the image one square at a time. The drawing is then rendered in easy stages to create a finished portrait.

Even the most complex of subjects can be broken down into easy steps using this method, and by following the numerous step-by-step exercises, the reader will very soon be producing highly detailed drawings based on photographs of their own.

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Drawing Using Grids: Portraits of Babies & Children by Giovanni Civardi demonstrates a straightforward yet effective method for artists, using grids to aid perspective and proportions in creating portraits. Civardi offers minimal textual explanation, focusing instead on illustrative examples that guide readers from the basic shapes to detailed features. His approach, described as simple and novel, is aimed at helping students confidently capture expressive portraits through practice.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781782215325

Publisher: Search Press Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 12 February 2018

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Search Press Ltd

Illustration: 200 Illustrations, black and white

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 6.0mm

Width: 210.0mm

Height: 295.0mm

Weight: 362g

Pages: 80

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About the Author

GIOVANNI CIVARDI was born in Milan in 1947. While training to become a sculptor, portrait artist and illustrator at the Free Life-Study School of the Accademia di Brera, he also studied medicine and surgery. For over a decade, he worked as an illustrator, producing commissions for newspapers, magazines and book covers. During frequent trips to France and Denmark, Civardi put on one-man exhibitions of this work and pursued his interest in studying the relationship between medical anatomy and the human form as depicted by the artist. His experience gained from teaching anatomy, life drawing and portraiture in schools and institutions over many years has led to the publication of numerous books in which Civardi's experiences are brought into focus.

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