Drawing Expressive Portraits

This guide encourages you to forget about creating a likeness, and instead, to concentrate on seeing and drawing the big shapes of dark and light. The likenesses will follow. In a clear, step-by-step format, with the help of nine start-to-finish portrait demonstrations, you will learn:

• Easy, basic pencil and charcoal techniques
• How to draw each feature of the face
• How to communicate various facial expressions
• Techniques for working from live models
• How to draw a variety of people, different poses and lighting conditions