The Artist's Complete Guide to Drawing the Head
by William Maughan
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appears in Drawing, Art, and Nonfiction.
In this innovative guide, master art instructor William Maughan demonstrates how to create a realistic human likeness by using the classic and highly accurate modeling technique of chiaroscuro (Italian for ?light and dark?) developed by Leonardo da Vinci during the High Renaissance.Maughan first introduces readers to the basics of this centuriesol...
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appears in Drawing, Art, and Nonfiction.
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Consider Drawing the Head and Hands by Andrew Loomis.
“Andrew Loomis presents a constructive, proportion-first method for drawing heads and hands, relying on annotated plates and progressive demonstrations. The book reads visually: many pages show staged drawings you can copy or reverse-engineer at the easel. Its most useful element is straightforward plane construction and repeatable proportion rules that speed up believable sketching. Annoyances include dated terminology, a narrow set of model-types, and repetitive examples that assume those proportional ideals. Plan to pair it with other references for photo-based anatomy.”
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