If you've always wanted to draw beautiful, realistic-looking portraits of your favorite people, this step-by-step guide shows you how to do it - better and more easily than you ever thought possible. &break;&break;Lee Hammond quickly teaches you how to add the illustration of three-dimensional highlights and shadows to simple shapes using pencil shading and blending. After you've got the basics down, you'll learn how to use the same techniques to portray every feature of the human face. You'll also discover how to figure out what the features of your photographed model really look like so you can draw them from different angles. Then Hammond shows you how to put all those features together to create a lifelike portrait that truly captures the individuality of your subject. &break;&break;After you've completed these easy-to-do drawing exercises, you'll soon be turning the memories frozen in your old snapshots into warm, beautiful works of art.
Lee Hammond Books
Lee Hammond, celebrated as “The Queen of Art,” is a prolific author and artist with extensive expertise in art instruction, illustration, and forensic art. Her core passion lies in teaching, a pursuit she has dedicated her career to through private studios and classes. Hammond is also a best-selling author whose books, published by North Light Books, offer detailed step-by-step guidance for drawing and painting, utilizing her own proven, self-taught techniques. Beyond her instructional work, she excels as a forensic illustrator, aiding law enforcement with composite sketches and reconstructions that have been instrumental in solving cases. Her diverse artistic talents also extend to illustrations for NASCAR and the creation of fine art pieces across various subjects, including animals and landscapes.



Draw colorful subjects with bestselling author Lee Hammond. This book is loaded with fun lessons and projects from popular instructor Lee Hammond on drawing brightly colored nature subjects realistically--more easily than you ever thought possible! The book includes basic colored-pencil drawing instruction on materials, using a grid to transfer a preliminary drawing from a photo, values, color, shadows, blending, and other key lessons for beginners. Twenty+ demonstrations show how to draw subjects from three different viewpoints, and how to draw detail from far away to super close. It includes fruit, flowers, leaves, butterflies, and birds.