How to Draw Faces: Learn to Draw People from Complete Scratch Paperback – 3 July 2019

This is an excellent book to learn how to draw faces from. It gives step by step directions and drawings to use for examples.

My daughter who is only 11 totally smashed this portrait from following this book. She’s big into art and is very good at lots of drawings but struggled with faces. The two pictures attached are only 1 week apart!!! The first face she did was a section of face and couldn’t grasp it at all. Then I got her this booked and she followed it, it took her a total of 27 hours to complete the portrait but the end result was astonishing! The book from start to finish is only one face, but it’s well worth it, it goes into depth about shading, lighting, different pencils etc.

Pretty neat. The author takes you through a painstakingly thorough (and that's a GOOD thing!) process of drawing a portrait of a young woman. (The same portrait that is on the cover of the book.) Along the way, you'll pick up a lot of techniques that will help your future drawings and you'll most likely feel a lot of confidence after completing the drawing project by the end of the book. She "holds your hand" (that's a GOOD thing!) through the creation of the whole portrait.I am giving the book five stars because she really pours her heart into giving you all the information you need to complete the drawing.However, I was somehow under the impression (based on the title) that this book would help artists draw portraits of anyone "from complete scratch." Instead, she gives instructions, measurements, a "template," if you will, on how to draw this one particular woman's face from scratch. And by "from scratch" she means, not tracing and not copying a photo. Instead of copying a photo, you are copying *her* drawing! For some reason I thought that maybe she'd give instructions on how to draw *any* face "from scratch" (meaning draw a face from your imagination, in various poses, lighting, etc) "from scratch" (not using a photo—or someone else's drawing—to copy) but this is not the case.A lot of artists aspire to be able to draw faces entirely from their imagination (and many artists do attain this skill).This is not a criticism of this particular book, however, because it's a really great concept that she's offering--step-by-step with painstaking (which is GOOD!) detail on how to do your own drawing of the woman which is on the cover of the book. If you're still learning how to draw portraits, this book will undoubtedly help you.

Consegnato in tempi rapidissimi. Tutto Ok. bel libro.

A great book for anyone who really wants to understand the nitty gritty of drawing and shading a face. I really found this book very helpful with its step by step detailed presentation.