You Can Draw Amazing Faces - Softcover

Gamble, Kim

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0789438909 ISBN 13: 9780789438904

Publisher: Dk Pub, 1998

Synopsis

An instructional art book focusing on the various elements in drawing a face, including shading, features, proportions, profiles, and expressions

About this title

From School Library Journal

Grade 3-6?As one has come to expect in a DK offering, the strength of these how-to-draw-it titles lies in their use of color photographs, a fairly novel and welcome feature in art books for a juvenile audience. Less welcome is the DK convention whereby each two-page spread introduces a new concept (in the case of Fantastic Animals, a new type of animal; in Amazing Faces, a new element, style, or technique of portraiture), which preordains a certain artificiality of organization and shallowness of coverage that is only compounded by the brevity of each title. Accepting these drawbacks as a given and ignoring the visual choppiness and other defects of layout and design, there are elements here that young artists may find helpful. Certainly the pages devoted to "family features" and "caricatures" in Faces are intriguing and illuminating. And the rather tedious repetitiveness in Animals does reinforce the basic concepts of form, line, shading, and perspective. If nothing else, both titles encourage methodical effort and careful observation and will be welcome in large collections.?Marcia Hupp, Mamaroneck Public Library, NY
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Dk Pub
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0789438909
• ISBN 13: 9780789438904
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 24