Secrets to Drawing Realistic Faces

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. more

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4/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Sep-21-2009; Making Real Faces REAL; Ms. Parks speaks and illustrates in such a way that she gives the working artist an amazing amount of knowledge and confidence.; read full review | report as inappropriate

5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Sep-03-2009; drawing realistic faces; Well written and very informative,although pages were poorly filled,space was wasted. I did injoy content and good illustrations. all in all a very good book. Even if your an artist this book will really improve your facial skills. A...; read full review | report as inappropriate

4/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Mar-30-2009; A useful tool; I've only made it half way through this book so far and already found it to be a very useful tool for drawing faces. The author explains her methods for recreating facial features from her experience as a professional sketch artist. Most...; read full review | report as inappropriate

5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Feb-18-2009; Got Me Back On Track; I'm not sure how helpful this book will be to beginners as I have been drawing for a number of years and am simply looking to improve. The images were worth the price of this book for me as they were easy to duplicate. I didn't feel...; read full review | report as inappropriate

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4/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Sep-21-2009; Making Real Faces REAL; Ms. Parks speaks and illustrates in such a way that she gives the working artist an amazing amount of knowledge and confidence.; read full review | report as inappropriate

3/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Feb-04-2004; Practical instruction on drawing faces from photographs; This book is based upon Ms. Parks' one week, 40 hour, course teaching composite sketching to law enforcement officers, a skill which they then use to identify suspects. This course entailed much material and as she writes in her book,...; read full review | report as inappropriate

2/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Apr-28-2008; Disappointed; 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...; read full review | report as inappropriate