Over 100 illustrations in color and black and white demonstrate how to achieve accurate and expressive forms. Invaluable to beginning and advanced students of life drawing. Practical exercises to develop visual imagination.
In this innovative guide, learn how to create a realistic human likeness by using the classic modeling technique of chiaroscuro developed by Leonardo da Vinci during the High Renaissance. The book begins with lessons on how to analyze form, light, and shadow; use dark pencil, white pencil, and toned paper to create a full range of values; use the elements of design to enhance a likeness; and capture a sitter's gestures and proportions - all basics of this technique. Following are step-by-step demonstrations on how to draw facial features, develop visual awareness, and render the head in color with soft pastels.
Translated and edited by Robert Beverly Hale, this book is the most complete guide to achieving precise shapes for the forms of the human body.