Sketch Your Best Self - Amy Blackwell

From Search Press, Sketch Your Best Self by Amy Blackwell is a playful paperback sketchbook-style guide to drawing portraits and selfie-inspired illustrations, starting with your own face. Split into four sections, it covers the basics, how to draw faces, building bodies and selfie style, with step-by-step focus on features, expressions, bodies and limbs.

Alongside practical drawing guidance, the book explores a range of selfie looks, including pop art style, full colour, monochrome and retro classics style. Expect prompts that encourage experimentation, from practising photobooth-style expressions to adding attitude and taking on whimsical challenges inspired by Snapchat-style filters. Designed to be fully inclusive, it can be enjoyed by everyone.

Key features

• Four sections covering basics, faces, bodies and selfie style
• Guidance on drawing facial features and creating different expressions
• Techniques for drawing bodies and limbs
• Selfie-inspired styles including pop art, full colour, monochrome and retro classics
• Drawing challenges based around Snapchat-style filters
• Paperback format

Specifications

• Author: Amy Blackwell
• Subtitle: How to draw selfie-style
• Publisher: Search Press
• Publication date: 31 May 2021
• Pages: 144
• Illustrations: 144 colour illustrations
• ISBN: 9781782219972

Sizing

170 x 230 x 13 mm

Rackhams Reference : E4QC3MLI77