Product Description

Everything you need to know to paint faces and figures.

Eight professional artists share proven techniques and time-tested advice for painting everyone's favorite subject--people. Favorite color mixes, tips on lighting your subject, strategies for creative cropping, advice for getting the eyes "just right"-- it's all here, along with other valuable lessons and expert know-how to make the people in your artwork expressive, engaging and "real."

This is the very best instruction culled from North Light's most popular books on the subject, making it the definitive guide on drawing and painting people. Features comprehensive coverage of:

• Traditional half- and full-length portraits as well as people in landscape settings.
• A range of popular media--including oil, acrylic, watercolor and colored pencil--along with a rundown on tools and materials for each.
• Portraying various ages and ethnicities.
• Color--from specific color mixes for achieving a realistic range of skin tones and hair colors, to color harmonies for dynamic portraits.
• Essential keys to stronger designs.
• Making the most of value, light, shading, line, cast shadows and more.

The entire process--from taking reference photos to secrets for capturing the essence of your subject--is outlined with numerous illustrations and step-by-step examples, along with 15 complete painting demonstrations. This reference is loaded with straightforward, hands-on instruction that the novice can pick up to get started, while more advanced artists will find sound methods and expert tips for taking their work to the next level.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #525546 in Books
• Published on: 2007-11-02
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 192 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9781581809817
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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About the Author
Jeff Blocksidge and Mary Burzlaff are editors for North Light Books. Jeff has background experience in mixed-media collage and screenprinting. Mary has background experience in Art History and sculpture.

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Customer Reviews

Disappointing
This book is merely made up of parts from other books. For example, the author took a portion from Ann Kullberg's Capturing soft realism in colored pencil and another from Chris Saper's Painting beautiful skin tones. Alot of the work in the book is from Chris Saper. Those are just some examples, there are a few others as well that are just repeats from other books.

Well, I was looking for something different. I guess for those who have not read the other books, may find this book informative.

Good, but Painting Beautiful Skin Tones With Color & Light by Chris Saper is better!
This is a good book, but its almost the exact same book (and not as good) as Painting Beautiful Skin Tones With Color & Light in Oil, Pastel and Watercolor by Chris Saper. Some of the examples in both books are the exact same, but i find the book on Painting skin to explain more things. I would give Drawing and Painting People: The Essentail Guide a rating of 3, and Painting Beautiful Skin Tones With Color & Light in Oil, Pastel and Watercolor a 5!

Sar

Painting
This book is a great help for my painting. I have it constantly by my easel and can see myself getting a lot of use from it in the future.