Drawing Faces: Learn How to Draw Facial Expressions, Detailed Features, and Lifelike Portraits

By Lise Herzog

Make your portraits and character drawings even more realistic with these step-by-step instructions and tips.

Grab your sketchbook, pens, and pencils, and follow along as this instructional drawing guide teaches you everything you need to know about creating true-to-life human faces. With more than 150 easy-to-follow illustrations, Drawing Faces is the perfect guide for aspiring artists looking to develop their portrait skills. Start off simple with learning how to draw basic facial features. By the end of the book, you will have gained the knowledge you need to make your characters’ faces as realistic as possible, including learning to draw:

*Various facial expressions

*Side profiles

*Lifelike portraits

*and much more!

Whether you’re a beginner or a drawing pro, Drawing Faces is the perfect book to hone your technical drawing skills and take your illustrations to the next level.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Open Road Integrated Media
• Release date: Mar 15, 2022
• ISBN: 9781646043262

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Cover: Drawing Faces, by Lise Herzog

Drawing Faces

Learn How to Draw Facial Expressions, Detailed Features, and Lifelike Portraits

Lise Herzog

Drawing Faces, by Lise Herzog, Ulysses Press

BEFORE YOU BEGIN

Drawing a face can seem difficult. How do you convey a certain realism? How do you capture the expression of features, faithfully depict your subject, or find a way to accurately draw the nose and eyes?

First of all, you can use a few fairly simple rules of proportion. But you don’t have to apply them to the letter to give your drawing style and expression. Rules of proportion help you put each facial element more or less in its place so that the face does not break down. Once you internalize a few of these guidelines, you can free yourself to experiment a little.

Because each face is different, how you draw a person’s face will depend on whether they are real or from your imagination, whether they are a man or woman, or where they are from. All of this information will help you modify the proportions of the face and, of course, change the shape of the different features that make it up.

People often want to draw someone they know. And after the drawing is done, it’s not uncommon to find that the result doesn’t seem to look like the model at all. However, if you look at the drawing without comparing it to the model (a real subject or photo), you may realize that you can still recognize the person in the drawing.

Furthermore, if you show your drawing to someone else, there’s a good chance that person will recognize the subject also. How is this possible? Even if your drawing doesn’t reproduce every detail of