Drawing Expressive Portraits

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By Paul Leveille

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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
  • Drawing Expressive Portraits