How To Draw Series
Susie Hodge
Search Press
18 June 2011 (US 1 November 2011) / ISBN 9781844486731
How-To Books/Drawing
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Reviewed
by Rachel A Hyde
Just about anybody who has any interest in art at all wishes that
they could draw faces – capturing our own and our loved ones’
likenesses is a very basic desire. Learn to draw faces from scratch
with another in this series on basic drawing skills.
There are all sorts of head and shoulder studies in here to capture:
young and old, pretty and less so, black, white and other races,
babies and pairs of people. Breaking it down in the way this series
does, starting with basic shapes and adding more details one step
at a time, works remarkably well with everything, but particularly
so with faces. I confess that this is the hardest thing to draw
for me, but working my way through the stages produced some of my
best work, so there is hope for everybody! The fifth stage shows
the full pencil drawing, and the sixth and final stage shows what
it looks like in watercolors. Getting from #5 to #6 is always the
hardest part with these books, but it does get you thinking about
what goes where and why, which is all to the good. Apart from the
introduction, which explains something about how to use the book,
there are no other words, just pictures. This method works well,
showing that a picture really is worth a thousand words. I look
forward to see what subjects this series tackles next.
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