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Using graphite, pen and ink and charcoal, Carole Massey demystifies the drawing process, offering a simple route to success. There are chapters on structure, proportions and features as well as vital information on perspective, light and shade for your portraits. Giving confidence to beginners, this book explains techniques in a clear, simple way, and offers inspiration and many new ideas to more seasoned artists.

Table of Contents:
Introduction 6 The history of portrait drawing 8 Materials 10 Shading techniques 20 Structure 22 Proportions 26 Features 32 Capturing a likeness 42 SAM 48 Character and expression 52 Moving on 58 ROSIE 64 Drawing from life 68 Composition 74 Story 78 MAASI WARRIOR 84 Age 88 CORA 90 Self portraits 94 Experimenting 95 Index 96

About the Author :
Carole Massey was born in Hertfordshire and studied at St. Alban's School of Art and Leicester School of Art & Design. After a career in advertising and graphic design, Carole returned to her first love, painting, full-time. She now teaches and runs weekend workshops, as well as organising painting holidays. Carole's work is exhibited widely, and she is particularly known for her celebrity portraits, mostly inspired by photographs. She uses a wide variety of media including acrylic, watercolour, pastel, pencil and monochrome.

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Carole Massey deals with structure and features of the human face, showing that it's often very subtle differences in the nose or the ears that define character. Her section on eyes/nose triangle - the main focus of how we recognise people - is one of the best there is. The book is sensitively illustrated and includes a good variety of facial types, and Carole explains clearly how it all fits together.-The Artist Carole Massey packs a huge amount of material and ideas into a comparatively short 96 pages and this is one of the best books on portrait drawing that I've seen. The problem that any book on portraiture has to overcome is that it's full of pictures of people that you've never met, in contrast to the subjects you're going to find in front of you. Carole counters this with a good variety of examples, male and female, young and old and with different skin tones, facial shapes and hair types. To borrow the old News of the World slogan, all human life (pretty much) is here. The book is also full of demonstrations, examples, tips and exercises. One of the nice features is that every page feels different. All books are designed to a basic page layout, but this one is so flexible that the whole thing feels like a voyage of discovery and I think you'll be finding new delights long after you first opened the cover. "Masterclass" is a movable feast, but this is a book which lives up to a difficult billing. Essential reading.-Artbookreview.net At 96 pages this is quite a compact guide, but Carole manages to pack in all the essentials and she explains the eyes/nose triangle - the main focus of how we recognise people - particularly well. There are also three relatively short demonstrations that have been chosen to reflect a good variety of facial types. These bring all the technical sections of the book together, but are not so much exercises that you feel you have to follow as simply a summary of everything that's gone before. I rather like this, because one of the bugbears of books on portraiture is the feeling that you're being shown how to paint people you've never seen. It's an insurmountable hurdle, but one which is rather nicely side-stepped here. It's commonplace to say that books "have much to teach the beginner and more experienced artist alike", but I do feel that this one can be approached as both a primer and a masterclass. I know that sounds contradictory, but you'll have to trust me!-Paint I really like this book, far better than others I have seen on drawing portraits. Carole seems to cover everything in this easy to use, easy to follow book. I am sure this will improve my portrait drawing and it could do the same for you. It takes you through everything you need to know and also gives detailed step-by-step instructions. It takes you through drawing from photos, sketching, life drawing and more. Facial features, character and pose are all covered. I thought the best element (they're all good) was the structure of the face. Portraiture is not easy to excel at, but this is a brilliant guide that I would be happy to recommend to anyone.-Yarnsandfabrics.co.uk/crafts


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781844487479
  • Publisher: Search Press Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Search Press Ltd
  • Height: 280 mm
  • No of Pages: 96
  • Spine Width: 10 mm
  • Width: 216 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1844487474
  • Publisher Date: 08 May 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: Drawing Masterclass
  • Weight: 731 gr


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