Colored Pencil Painting Portraits provides straightforward solutions to the problems that artists face in creating lifelike images, and will prime readers on the intricacies of color, texture, shadow, and light as they interplay with the human form. In this truly comprehensive guide packed with step-by-step demonstrations, Nickelsen considers working from photo references versus live models; provides guidance on posing and lighting, as well as planning and composing a work; discusses tools, materials, and revolutionary layering techniques; and offers lessons on capturing gesture and expression and on rendering facial and body features of people of all age groups and skin tones.
Colored Pencil Painting Portraits provides straightforward solutions to the problems that artists face in creating lifelike images, and will prime readers on the intricacies of color, texture, shadow, and light as they interplay with the human form. In this truly comprehensive guide packed with step-by-step demonstrations, Nickelsen considers working from photo references versus live models; provides guidance on posing and lighting, as well as planning and composing a work; discusses tools, materials, and revolutionary layering techniques; and offers lessons on capturing gesture and expression and on rendering facial and body features of people of all age groups and skin tones.
Colored Pencil Painting Portraits: Master a Revolutionary Method for Rendering Depth and Imitating Life
192Colored Pencil Painting Portraits: Master a Revolutionary Method for Rendering Depth and Imitating Life
192Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780385346276 |
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Publisher: | Clarkson Potter/Ten Speed |
Publication date: | 06/20/2017 |
Pages: | 192 |
Sales rank: | 114,859 |
Product dimensions: | 8.40(w) x 9.90(h) x 0.60(d) |