How to Draw Faces: Learn to Draw People from Complete Scratch

Pretty neat. The author takes you through a painstakingly thorough (and that's a GOOD thing!) process of drawing a portrait of a young woman. (The same portrait that is on the cover of the book.) Along the way, you'll pick up a lot of techniques that will help your future drawings and you'll most likely feel a lot of confidence after completing the drawing project by the end of the book. She "holds your hand" (that's a GOOD thing!) through the creation of the whole portrait. I am giving the book five stars because she really pours her heart into giving you all the information you need to complete the drawing. However, I was somehow under the impression (based on the title) that this book would help artists draw portraits of anyone "from complete scratch." Instead, she gives instructions, measurements, a "template," if you will, on how to draw this one particular woman's face from scratch. And by "from scratch" she means, not tracing and not copying a photo. Instead of copying a photo, you are copying *her* drawing! For some reason I thought that maybe she'd give instructions on how to draw *any* face "from scratch" (meaning draw a face from your imagination, in various poses, lighting, etc) "from scratch" (not using a photo—or someone else's drawing—to copy) but this is not the case. A lot of artists aspire to be able to draw faces entirely from their imagination (and many artists do attain this skill). This is not a criticism of this particular book, however, because it's a really great concept that she's offering--step-by-step with painstaking (which is GOOD!) detail on how to do your own drawing of the woman which is on the cover of the book. If you're still learning how to draw portraits, this book will undoubtedly help you.

This book is excellent! I've read it through 3 times. It demonstrates and explains sketching techniques that will bring your artwork to an entirely new level. I am so impressed with her techniques and direction. Every portrait I start is is a real artistic journey in shading and sketching.

Unnecessary to have so many pages. It’s a basic mathematical solution to create summitry in your basic approach to sketching. I like the book and it’s been helpful but it approaches you learning to draw 1 person. I learn more from seeing more examples.

Interesting book

Fine book. Easy to read. Larger print helps.

I don’t know if it was me not understanding the book’s description or a missrepresentation. This is a book about how to draw a face, one face, a woman’s face. The face that is on the cover of the book. I was expecting a little bit more. My granddaughter is learning to be an artist, so I will be gifting this book to her for her studies, so problem solved.

This has helped me to bring out my creativity and feel more confident.

Very good. Lots of illustrations and how to approach

使用されるツールから、顔の正面を描くのみの本だが 一番重要な、顔の縦横の比率、顔の各パーツの位置関係、 パーツの持つ質感から、明暗迄ビッシリ描きこんである。 顔に興味があるなら参考になると思う。

This would have to be my favourite book on learning to draw faces. Its very informative, easy to use and there are a lot of fabulous little tips to achieve your perfect portrait

Consegnato in tempi rapidissimi. Tutto Ok. bel libro.

My daughter who is only 11 totally smashed this portrait from following this book. She’s big into art and is very good at lots of drawings but struggled with faces. The two pictures attached are only 1 week apart!!! The first face she did was a section of face and couldn’t grasp it at all. Then I got her this booked and she followed it, it took her a total of 27 hours to complete the portrait but the end result was astonishing! The book from start to finish is only one face, but it’s well worth it, it goes into depth about shading, lighting, different pencils etc.