Drawing and Painting Beautiful Faces: A Mixed-Media Portrait Workshop

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Drawing and Painting Beautiful Faces is an inspiring, mixed media workbook on how to draw and paint beautiful, fashion illustration-style faces. Author Jane Davenport is a beloved artist, and popular international workshop instructor known by her students and fans for her effervescent, enthusiastic, happy and encouraging style.
In this book, she guides you step-by-step through the foundations of drawing a face, developing harmonious features, creating smooth skin tones, playing with bright colors, shading, highlighting and so much more. This book is full of new techniques to engage and inspire your imagination.
Master a variety of techniques that employ pencil, marker, pen, watercolor, acrylic paint, ink, pastel, and ephemera as you happily dance your way through the exercises in this brilliant guide.

From the Publisher

A Word From Jane Davenport

This book is all about drawing whimsical faces from your imagination. I like to think of our pencils and brushes as harboring crowds of imaginary people and creatures—all just waiting patiently to fall out and be drawn into existence, one by one.

There are absolutely no rules in art. Everything I present in my classes and in this book are simply my ideas. I believe drawing is theater. I base my artwork on reality and then heighten the elements that fascinate me until I arrive at my own style full of whimsical faces, colors, and forms. My greatest wish is for you to know the joy of drawing faces and to build your own style. And it’s such a privilege to help you do that. Just follow your curiosity, gather your courage, and bravely read on!

Contents of Drawing and Painting Beautiful Faces: A Mixed-Media Portrait Workshop

Supplies Me!

‘When do I use what?’ is a common question about art supplies, and it’s my intention to help you with those decisions throughout this book. But I have a confession to make first: I am an art supply junkie. I love art supplies so much I created an online workshop all about them and I opened an art supply store. No one knows better than I, that with all that amazing choices, deciding what to use can be overwhelming—let alone deciding how to use it. In this chapter we take a closer look at the materials I use in my artwork.

Drawing The Basics

I have developed a process for my online workshops called ‘Draw Happy.’ It takes the familiar lament, ‘I wish I could draw’ out of people’s vocabulary and replaces it with the creative confidence to enjoy drawing! So, we’ll start there and then we’ll skip along several stepping stones that will have you drawing faces along with me by the end of the chapter. By understanding and practicing these concepts, you will build a lasting and beautiful foundation for creating faces.

Drawing The Details

Drawing is all about drama! You can emphasize the details you love, set your own rules, and create what pleases you. In my whimsical drawings I like to start with realistic features and then bend expectations. This results in playfully quirky, interesting, and fanciful faces. In this chapter, we look at my secrets and tips for constructing each of the facial features and hair!

Paint & Create

In this chapter, I have fifteen fun-loving exercises for creating fanciful faces for you to enjoy. Each project is intended as a prompt to inspire you to grab your tools and get busy making art. All the drawing basics we have learned so far will be used with the glorious addition of color! Are you ready to paint and create?

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Quarry Books; Illustrated edition (January 15, 2015)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 136 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1592539866
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1592539864
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.15 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.55 x 0.5 x 9.95 inches