"How To Draw People - Learn From Books"

Below are some of the best books available online. Hover your mouse over the image to see the details:

Step-by-step diagrams make it easy to draw people of all shapes and sizes, engaged in a variety of activities. By joining circles, ovals, rectangles, and other shapes, beginning artists can create a boy on a swing, a fireman, drummer, mailman, cowboy, and 25 other subjects. Includes blank practice pages.

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Suitable for ages 9-12.

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For most beginners, people are the most rewarding, yet the most difficult subject. But experienced artists know a variety of secrets and shortcuts which are revealed here by a popular art educator. Ten progressive step-by-step demonstrations on how to draw people turn a beginner into a practiced artist by emphasizing particular challenges such as proportion, posture, balance, and clothing, as well as the elusive facial expression qualities of personality and character.

Best-selling book #4 (Click on the image to view detail)

In this unique how-to-draw book, Gene Franks invites you into his artistic world as he shows you how to draw people of various nationalities and ethnicities in pencil. You will learn all about the essential tools, materials, and techniques used for developing a drawing through its stages, from roughing in the general shapes and developing shading to finishing the details of the rendering. In addition to step-by-step demonstrations and in-depth instruction, this illustrated guide contains a wealth of drawings of people from around the world to both copy and admire, making it a welcome addition to any artist's drawing reference library, to be enjoyed for years to come!

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