Drawing & Painting Portraits in Watercolour

Portraits are timeless and enthralling, and a discipline to which many artists aspire. Experienced artist David Thomas demonstrates how to use watercolour, pencil and charcoal to produce rewarding results in your portrait work. This book will show you how to fill your paintings with life and character, and explain clearly how to build your sketches up into more developed drawn artwork, and from there to inspiring watercolour portraits.



Learn to use watercolour, pencil and charcoal to produce fresh and approachable portraits invested with life and character.

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Drawing & Painting Portraits in Watercolour

Portraits are timeless and enthralling, and a discipline to which many artists aspire. Experienced artist David Thomas demonstrates how to use watercolour, pencil and charcoal to produce rewarding results in your portrait work. This book will show you how to fill your paintings with life and character, and explain clearly how to build your sketches up into more developed drawn artwork, and from there to inspiring watercolour portraits.



Learn to use watercolour, pencil and charcoal to produce fresh and approachable portraits invested with life and character.

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Drawing & Painting Portraits in Watercolour

Drawing & Painting Portraits in Watercolour

by David Thomas
Drawing & Painting Portraits in Watercolour

Drawing & Painting Portraits in Watercolour

by David Thomas

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Overview

Portraits are timeless and enthralling, and a discipline to which many artists aspire. Experienced artist David Thomas demonstrates how to use watercolour, pencil and charcoal to produce rewarding results in your portrait work. This book will show you how to fill your paintings with life and character, and explain clearly how to build your sketches up into more developed drawn artwork, and from there to inspiring watercolour portraits.



Learn to use watercolour, pencil and charcoal to produce fresh and approachable portraits invested with life and character.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781781264683
Publisher: Search Press
Publication date: 03/25/2025
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 128
File size: 118 MB
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About the Author

David Thomas R.I.B.A. is a well known artist whose award winning portrait paintings have appeared in Royal Portrait Society Open Exhibition (2016 and 2017).

Table of Contents

Introduction 6
Materials 8
Design 14
Composition 16
Proportion 20
Pose 24
Lighting 30
Backgrounds 34
Using line 38
Sketching 40
Drawing from life 42
Drawing from photographs 44
Drawing with pencil 48
Using charcoal 52
Drawing with charcoal 54
Using watercolour 58
Watercolour painting techniques 60
Other useful techniques 66
Colour and tone 68
Painting from life 72
Painting from photographs 74
Perfecting your portraits 82
Hair 84
Eyes and hands 86
Age 88
The portraits 90
Alexander 92
Mother and baby 102
Jilly 114
Afterword 126
Index 128
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