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Drawing and Painting Expressive Little Faces

Step-by-Step Techniques for Creating People and Portraits with Personality--Explore Watercolors, Inks, Markers, and More
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Drawing and Painting Expressive Little Faces by Amarilys Henderson offers a practical guide to creating faces full of style and personality. It covers gathering art supplies, simplifying facial features and proportions, exploring basic facial shapes, mixing realistic skin tones, and bringing faces to life with unique artistic flair. The book also inspires readers with creative project ideas like party invitations and comic books.
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This book is ideal for aspiring artists and illustrators keen to improve their skills in drawing and painting expressive faces, particularly those interested in using watercolours, ink, and markers for creative effects.

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From successful licensed artist and popular Skillshare instructor Amarylis Henderson, Drawing and Painting Expressive Little Faces shows readers at all skill levels how to draw and paint faces by confidently handling proportion and expression, developing a style that fits each likeness or character, and incorporating details that bring faces to life.

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In Drawing and Painting Expressive Little Faces, artist and popular Skillshare instructor Amarilys Henderson shares her practical and creative techniques for drawing and painting faces with style and personality.

Gathering supplies: Consider the creative possibilities of watercolour, ink, and markers, and create a mobile sketch pack so you can capture faces and expressions on the go.

Simplifying the face and identifying proportions: Use photos to simplify the face's key elements, learn about facial proportions and factors for placing facial features, and apply these concepts through a simple warm-up using a single colour to paint a face in multiple values.

Facial shapes and features: Learn about the five basic facial shapes and how to modify the chin line, ears, and hairline. Discover how to draw and paint mouths, eyes, and noses and make alterations to show pose and personality.

Mixing colour: Explore the pigments and brushes you'll need to achieve a wide range of realistic skin tones, shadows, and expressions.

Bringing faces to life: Navigate the process from start to finish. Learn to adjust line quality to suggest different genders and ethnicities, and change up artistic styling to put a unique spin on your creations.

Project ideas: Get inspired by some cool ways to apply your new skills: party invitations, repeat patterns, comic books, and more!

Don't be intimidated by the challenge of drawing and painting faces. Improve your face game with Drawing and Painting Expressive Little Faces!

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781631598654

Publisher: Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 02 June 2020

Country: United States

Imprint: Quarry Books

Illustration: 200 color photos

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 216.0mm

Height: 254.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 144

About the Author

Amarilys Henderson is a watercolor illustrator who specializes in surface design. She enjoys bringing the dynamic vibrancy of watercolor to everyday products, from paper to porcelain. Her experience in print design influences much of her work, which found its renaissance in new motherhood and refreshed faith. Amarilys is a Top Teacher on online teaching platform Skillshare, where she shares her creative techniques in bite-sized lessons. She currently has 84,000 students who have watched almost 2.5 million minutes of class time. Amarilys lives in Rochester, Minnesota. See more of her work on watercolordevo.com.

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