Drawing: Faces & Features

Drawing: Faces & Features by Debra Kauffman Yaun teaches artists how to create detailed, realistic portraits in graphite pencil starting from basic shapes. Successfully drawing the human face is a challenging yet rewarding artistic endeavour.

Faces & Features guides you on capturing the unique characteristics of the human face in graphite pencil, with valuable tips on choosing materials, building with basic shapes, placing proportionate features, defining facial expressions, and shading to develop form and realism.

With numerous detailed step-by-step projects to both recreate and admire, Debra Kauffman Yaun shares her personal methods for rendering the human face in its full expressiveness. She introduces tips and techniques for drawing babies, children, teenagers, and adults of all ages.

This book includes in-depth information on specific facial features along with detailed, step-by-step exercises that explore ways to develop complete portraits. The wealth of beautiful, inspiring examples ensures that Faces & Features will be a welcome addition to any artist's drawing reference library.

Drawing faces can be a challenge, but with this step-by-step guide, you'll be rendering realistic portraits in no time. Designed for beginners, the How to Draw & Paint series offers an easy-to-follow guide that introduces artists to basic tools and materials and provides simple, step-by-step lessons for a variety of projects suitable for the aspiring artist.

Faces & Features allows artists to develop their drawing skills, demonstrating how to start with basic shapes and use pencil and shading techniques to create varied textures, values, and details for a realistic, completed drawing.