Step-by-Step Portraits from Simple Shapes - SinArty

From SinArty, Step-by-Step Portraits from Simple Shapes is a paperback guide designed to help beginner artists approach portrait drawing with greater confidence. Using meticulously planned exercises and step-by-step tutorials, it trains the eye to look for simple forms first, then build towards more advanced sketching and shading techniques in graphite and charcoal pencil.

Alongside practical instruction, SinArty shares his approach to self-critique, showing how understanding proportion and learning to spot mistakes can support stronger results. The book covers core skills such as how to hold the pencil, refining linework, and developing pencil pressure and control, before moving into intermediate-level shading techniques to create contrast and depth. With a focus on drawing from references rather than life, the tutorials include portraits of living subjects, drawings of sculptures, and human anatomy, with additional guidance touching on composition and drawing from the imagination.

Key features

• Step-by-step exercises and tutorials that build portraits from simple shapes
• Techniques for sketching and shading in graphite and charcoal pencil
• Guidance on proportion and training the eye to spot mistakes
• Covers pencil hold, linework, pressure, and control
• Reference-based tutorials including living subjects, sculptures, and human anatomy
• Touches on composition and drawing from the imagination
• Colour illustrations

Specifications

• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 144
• Publisher: David & Charles
• Publication date: 29 February 2024
• ISBN: 9781446310007

Sizing

210 x 273 mm

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