Table of Contents

Introduction and how this book is organized 13

Section One: 15
Drawing fundamentals for the new artist. 15
Some introductory words for the newbie artist or artist “wannabe.” 17
Choosing Drawing Materials 18
Let’s get started with drawing: Negative Space. 21
Your first drawing assignment: 23
Looking for an angle 27
Using the grid and negative space 28
“Coloring book” drawings vs. shaded drawings. 32
Fundamentals of Shading: Drawing and Shading the Sphere. 33
Drawing Techniques 37
Goofing off with crosshatching—practice is fun and important! 44
It’s okay to scribble 46

Section Two: 49
Fundamentals of drawing the head 49
Drawing the Face: Basics of Head Structure and Alignment of Features. 50
Alignment of the features of the head 54
Using the width of the eye as a form of measurement. 57
Drawing the Profile 60
Drawing the eyes, nose, mouth, hair and ears. 68
The eyes 68
The pupil and the iris of the eye 70
Drawing the Nose 79
Drawing the mouth 86
Drawing Teeth 90
Anatomy of a smile 93
The mouth in profile 94
The ear, step-by-step 96
Drawing the Hair 97
The neck and shoulders 100
“Landmarks” of the head 104
Understanding Shading for Portraits 109
Step-by-Step portrait, front view. 120
Step-by-step portrait from a three-quarters view and using “soft edges.” 125
“Semi-realistic” pencil portrait. 133
Tips for capturing a likeness from a photograph: 138
Comparison between the male and female heads. 139
Differences in age and race 141
Drawing faces from your imagination 143
Advanced shading exercises for drawing from the imagination 145
Don’t Do This! 152
Proportions of the body 154

Section Three: 157
The many facets of being a portrait artist—articles and essays. 157
Advice for the newbie artist 158
Attitudes and Self-esteem 168
Are you too old or too young? 169
Snobs and Cretins 171
We draw ourselves 173
Accept the Fact 174
Digital tools can be the artist’s best friend. 178
What kind of computer to use for digital art? 181
Copyright issues and artists’ rights 184
Art is worthwhile. 189
Parting Words 190
Additional drawings from various sketchbooks 191
About the author 202
Bibliography 205

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