Artist Giovanni Civardi shows you how to create an accurate pencil sketch of the subject by laying a grid over a photo or drawing and transferring the image to the drawing surface one square at a time.
Beginning with a summary of basic human anatomy and key drawing techniques, this book contains over 90 outlines of people in a range of ages, profiles and poses, with guidance on how to add shading and tonal effects to create more detailed finished drawings. Uses material from Drawing Using Grids: Portraits with Character and Drawing Using Grids: Portraits of Babies & Children.
Table of Contents
What is the grid method?4
Portraits with character6
- Introduction7
- Anatomy8
- Features and proportions10
- Approaches to drawing14
- Portrait gallery20
Portraits of babies & children82
- Introduction83
- Proportions and procedures84
- Portrait gallery86
People in action160
- Introduction161
- Proportions, perspective and structure162
- Anatomy164
- Approaches to drawing static and dynamic figures166
- Sketching moving figures174
- People in action gallery176
Finding inspiration236
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