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Colored Pencil Painting Portraits

Name: Colored Pencil Painting Portraits
ISBN: 9780385346276

Master a Revolutionary Method for Rendering Depth and Imitating Life

Alyona Nickelsen

Clarkson Potter/Ten Speed · Print & ebook · June 20, 2017

Reading lane: Portraits

Colored pencil painter Alyona Nickelsen reveals how to use the medium to push the limits of realistic portraiture.

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Why This Clicks

Portraits in Color

Explore how colored pencil can render lifelike portraits through attention to color, texture, shadow, and light.

Come here for

Practical guidance on posing, lighting, planning, and composition
Step-by-step demonstrations of layering and rendering features

Expect

A close look at gesture, expression, and the human form
Considerations for photo references, live models, and varied skin tones

Book Details

Authors: Alyona Nickelsen
Publisher: Clarkson Potter/Ten Speed
Published: June 20, 2017
Format: Print & ebook
Theme: Portraits · Figure Drawing & Human Form
Reading lane: Portraits

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Painting Techniques
Pencil Drawing
Portraits

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Colored pencil painter Alyona Nickelsen reveals how to use the medium to push the limits of realistic portraiture. Colored Pencil Painting Portraits provides straightforward solutions to the problems that artists face in creating lifelike images, and will prime readers on the intricacies of color, texture, shadow, and light as they interplay with the human form. In this truly comprehensive guide packed with step-by-step demonstrations, Nickelsen considers working from photo references versus live models; provides guidance on posing and lighting, as well as planning and composing a work; discusses tools, materials, and revolutionary layering techniques; and offers lessons on capturing gesture and expression and on rendering facial and body features of people of all age groups and skin tones.