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| Secrets to Drawing Realistic Faces | 
 enlarge | Author: Carrie Stuart Parks
Publisher: North Light Books
Category: Book
List Price: $23.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (26 reviews)
Sales Rank: 46292
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 144
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 10.9 x 8.4 x 0.5
ISBN: 1581802161
Dewey Decimal Number: 743.42
UPC: 035313319952
EAN: 9781581802160
ASIN: 1581802161
Publication Date: January 15, 2003
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Product Description
This book will have beginning artists of all ages drawing faces that are strikingly realistic and detailed. Artist Carrie Stuart Parks honed her fast and effective drawing skills as a professional forensic artist. Here she makes drawing fun and easy, showing beginners how to render vivid self portraits and portraits of others, all in a matter of hours. Artists will successfully learn how to master proportions and map facial features accurately. They will then study shapes within a composition and learn to draw them realistically. Lastly, artists will study the subject's values and use them to bring life and accuracy to each portrait. A final "checking" step helps artists capture heightened realism and accuracy. This book features clear step-by-step instructions, before-and-after examples from students, and proven drawing exercises used to train artists throughout the country.
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 My Search Is Over August 28, 2008
Finally I found the book I've been looking for almost a year. I've been trying to learn how to draw photorealistic portraits for months. I've bought plenty of books on drawings, but sadly they were either full of dry theory, with pictures I didn't like, or had great pictures, without showing me exactly how to get there. This books is just what I needed. It shows you exactly how to get from a blank sheet of paper to a great looking portrait.
Highly Recommend July 14, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Secrets to Drawing Realistic Faces is one of the best instructional books on drawing faces that I've read thus far. It has some extremely useful tips that have improved my drawing after just the first read.
Proper(realistic)shading and proportion were my weak areas; this book covered both in an easy to understand way. It also offers simple and great ways to implement these tasks properly.
If you are a beginner or even intermediate artist this is a great book to have on your shelf. Although probably not meant for the advanced or established portrait artist.
I'm sure I will be reading it several more times so that I can fine tune my skills.
Easy to read and follow July 11, 2008
I'm a novice and I found this book a very good start. Very easy language, the author discusses all facial features in good detail (although I found the hair topic inadequate, but hey you've got to practice.)
Great Instructional book! May 1, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Wonderful instructional book on teaching how to draw. Beautiful photos, and great illustrations. I would HIGHLY reccomend this book to those trying to learn to draw!
 Disappointed April 28, 2008
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
Not recommended if you are inexperienced at drawing 101. It will lead to total frustration! I am not finding what there is to substantiate saying this is a great book. Fortunately I have another instructional book that teaches about proper proportion from the beginning. I am planning to take a drawing course and had hopes of getting a head start (no pun intended), but this book does nothing to clarify issues about the basics. The drawings in the book are all extremely professional, well-executed and very un-basic. So I recommend it for people who are already drawing extremely well and are maybe even semi-professionals. However, since I am not that far along and am no judge of that, maybe it doesn't go that far. I'm sitting here right now feeling extremely discouraged.
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