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The Artist's Guide to Drawing People
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The Artist's Guide to Drawing People

by Jean-Pierre Lamérand
April 2022
Beginner
108 pages
2h 31m
English
Rocky Nook
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Eyes

Knowing how to draw eyes means being able to capture a look and, through that look, most of the emotion that emanates from the face. The motion of the eyebrows indicates a variety of very different emotions: they rise to indicate surprise and fear and they lower and pull together to express rage.

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When the face turns toward its profile, the bridge of the nose partially hides the outside eye.

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Glasses

When you draw eyes behind glasses, there are two problems of perspective: the issue of the eyes and that of the glasses, on a parallel plane. ...

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ISBN: 9781681989136