Coloured Pencil Painting Portraits by Alyona Nickelsen

COLOURED PENCIL PAINTING PORTRAITS by ALYONA NICKELSEN

The follow up to Coloured Pencil Painting Bible by coloured pencil painter Alyona Nickelsen this book reveals how to use the medium to push the limits of realistic portraiture.

Colored Pencil Painting Portraits provides straightforward solutions to the problems that artists face in creating lifel-ike images and will prime readers on the intricacies of colour texture shadow and light as they interplay with the human form.

In this truly comprehensive guide packed with step-by-step demonstrations the author compares working from photo references versus live models provides guidance on posing and lighting as well as planning and composing a work.

Also discusses tools materials and revolutionary layering techniques plus offers lessons on capturing gesture expression rendering facial and body features of people of all age groups and skin tones.