Heads, Features and Faces (Dover Anatomy for Artists)

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Certainly some of the difficult, continuously neglected areas of art study is the right kind rendering of heads, features, and faces. This volume, prepared by an expert in the field, is devoted exclusively to just that. With its clear, concise text, its almost 200 excellent illustrations, and its overall life-drawing approach, the book provides valuable guidelines on how best to portray faces, features, and heads.
There is probably no better instructor to turn to than George B. Bridgman. He brings to the subject both his expertise as an artist and his fifty years’ experience as lecturer and teacher at the Art Students League of New York. All the way through the book, he places as much emphasis on point of view and planes as on anatomy. In this way, you can develop a more precise understanding of each and every feature, the head and face in general, the relationship between features, and the relationship between a specific feature and the face or head. Mr. Bridgman’s consideration of the head includes such topics as the head at eye level and below eye level; planes of the head; and round and square forms. Four features — eye, nose, mouth, ear — are dealt with in detail. Sections on light and shade, comparative measurements, and principles of cube and oval construction further fortify the scope of the book. The finely executed drawings complement the textual material, illustrating all important concepts.  
Of special value is the creator’s inclusion of the work of famous portrait artists. Vermeer, Hals, Rembrandt, Reynolds, Louise Elisabeth LeBrun — these are the people who made portraiture a master art; and you are able to study, up close and at your leisure, the qualities that let their work achieve the status it did.

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