Drawing and Painting Beautiful Faces: A Mixed-Media Portrait Workshop

by Jane Davenport

Overview

Perfect for aspiring designers, Drawing and Painting Beautiful Faces is an inspiring, mixed-media workbook on how to draw and paint beautiful, fashion illustration–style faces.

Author Jane Davenport is a beloved artist and international workshop instructor known by her thousands of students and fans for her over-the-top, enthusiastic, happy, and encouraging style. In Drawing and Painting Beautiful Faces, Davenport guides you, step by step, through the foundations of drawing a face, developing successful features, creating skin tones, playing with bright colors, shading, highlighting, and much more as you learn to create amazing mixed-media portraits.

With this elegantly designed guidebook, you will quickly master a variety of techniques in a variety ofmediums, including:

• Pencil
• Marker
• Pen
• Watercolor
• Acrylic paint
• Ink
• Pastel
• Ephemera

Drawing and Painting Beautiful Faces will have you dancing your way through the exercises. In no time at all, you will have a selection of beautifully faced portraits ready to view, display, or even sell to a fashion designer.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781592539864
Publisher:	Quarry Books
Publication date:	01/15/2015
Pages:	136
Sales rank:	538,853
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 9.90(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Jane Davenport is a professional Artist, prize-winning author, popular Workshop Leader and her Online Schools are home to thousands of creatives from all around the world. Jane's artwork has featured in magazines, books, tv and movies. She designs signature art products, hosts art retreats in Byron Bay, Bali and Paris and her first mixed-media technique book is Drawing and Painting Faces (Quarry).

Table of Contents

Introduction....................................8
 
Chapter One
Supplies Me!
Surfaces.........................................8
Gesso...........................................8
Acrylics and Mediums..................8
Pastels ...........................................8
Watercolor.....................................8
Pencils...........................................8
Ink...............................................8
Markers.........................................8
Pens.............................................8
Stencils..........................................8
Ephemera........................................8
 
Chapter Two
Drawing the Basics
Draw Happy.....................................8
Divide & Conquer.................................... 8
Grand Scale……………………….8
The Hot Zones........................................8
Jane Style Whimsical Proportions..............8
Spheres & Light...............................8
Latitude & Longitude…………………….8
 
Chapter Three
Drawing the Details
Lip Service...................................8
Follow Your Nose…………………8
The Ears Have It………………………….8
Jane’s Whimsical Eyes………………………8
Brows & Lashes………………………..8
Hair……………………………………………..8
Bangs & Parts……………………………8
Curls & Updo…………………………….8
Wet & Windy………………………………8
Twisted & Braided…………………………….8
 
 
Chapter Four
 Paint & Create
Jane’s Whimsical Techniques................8
Into the Shadows............................8
Layer Love....................................8
Frida Collage-oh............................8
Prints Charming.............................8
Dreamy Skin Tones............................8
Glorious Glazes..............................8
Making Clouds...............................8
Stay Free....................................8
Very Cheeky .................................8
Drenched Color..............................8
Creating Movement.........................8
Hot Mess ....................................8
Neon Edges…………………………8
Blending In...................................8
 
 
Trust the Mess..............................8
Your Invitation...................8
About the Author.............................8
Resources
Acknowledgments
 

Editorial Reviews

"From an upbeat, lighthearted point of view, this workbook, written by working artist and art educator Davenport, encourages readers to get in touch with their creativity through drawing female faces in whimsical styles. The guide first provides a lengthier than average discussion of a wide variety of art materials, then plunges into easy to follow, step-by-step exercises. Individual steps are numbered and text is used to describe in detail the action of the pencil, pen, or brush. Davenport uses her fashion illustration background as a jumping-off point. Simplified styles of drawing prevail, but the author still takes on anatomy and underlying facial structure, explaining how to represent them convincingly in two dimensions. Sections on mixed media and collage offer advice for the reader on spontaneity. VERDICT Younger readers, especially teen girls, will enjoy this book most." - Library Journal

"For anyone who has longed to draw faces, Drawing and Painting Beautiful Faces by Jane Davenport will make your dreams a reality. Full of step-by-step exercises, this finely crafted book will help you create dramatic eyes, lighting, hair, and more. Discover all of Davenport's favorite materials for creating mixed-media portraits, as well as when and how she uses them. The most difficult part of drawing faces is balancing and placing features, but Davenport offers guidelines to format any face, even when tilted or angled. You will be creating dramatic mixed-media portraits by the end of this book." - Cloth Paper Scissors

From the Publisher

03/01/2015
From an upbeat, lighthearted point of view, this workbook, written by working artist and art educator Davenport, encourages readers to get in touch with their creativity through drawing female faces in whimsical styles. The guide first provides a lengthier than average discussion of a wide variety of art materials, then plunges into easy to follow, step-by-step exercises. Individual steps are numbered and text is used to describe in detail the action of the pencil, pen, or brush. Davenport uses her fashion illustration background as a jumping-off point. Simplified styles of drawing prevail, but the author still takes on anatomy and underlying facial structure, explaining how to represent them convincingly in two dimensions. Sections on mixed media and collage offer advice for the reader on spontaneity. VERDICT Younger readers, especially teen girls, will enjoy this book most.

Library Journal