Portrait Drawing: A Step-By-Step Art Instruction Book (Artist's Painting Library) Paperback – May 1, 2006

My 12 year old was able to take this book and go from sketchy facial composition skills to doing a pretty decent job with ease. She said it made a lot of sense to her and the instructions were really clear.

I wish I had bought this book first, it would've saved me a lot of money on other books I've tried. It's not only exceptional step by step instruction, it has great tips like doing the shading first to help with keeping proportion and great ways of sketching measurement "framework" to keep proportions accurate (saves a lot on erasers).

Received quickly and in good condition.

This is a good book for a beginner or an artist that wants to learn a different style of creating their works. I am learning a lot because I usually paint modern impressionist but his book is allowing me to try to create realism and I love it.

Loved it. Got this for my daughter. She learns visually only. She has improved after only a week. I am an artist too. I thought the explanation were easy to understand and informative.

Very hard to draw.

I'd wager this instruction book was never used. I purchased it to brush up on my portrait drawing skills which I haven't used for a very long time. This is a slim book, but is just what I was looking for.

I bought the book for my grandson for Christmas. It looks ideal. He is an amazing sketcher. But does have trouble with faces.