Heads, Features and Faces

by George B. Bridgman

Book Overview

Certainly one of the most difficult, often neglected areas of art study is the correct 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0486227081
• ISBN13: 9780486227085
• Release Date: June 1974
• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.5" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

New Library

Being an artist and having been an art teacher, losing all of my books and references in hurricane Katrina was devastating. I have been trying to replenish the best books for references since then. The books by Bridgman are some of the best around. I was pleased to find these and look forward to building my library back to where it once was. I recommend these books for both the amateur and professional. Thank you. B. Seabolt

Heads, Features and Faces

This book is very helpful - there are basic instructions and rules to apply to drawing the head, specific features of the head and the face. The information contained within is very valuable, plus the visual images are exceptionally instructive to the student of portraiture.Heads, Features and Faces

Short, but very good book of techniques

For the price, I don't think you can get a better book on drawing human heads. Bridgman illustrates a structural approach to the head and its features. (I agree that his language it sometimes a bit difficult to follow, but the sketches show everything you need to know about his technique). The book covers basic proportions of the head, an introduction about how to approach the head as a series of planes, how to draw the eyes, nose, ears, and mouth in a structural way, a brief comparision of adult to child head proportions, and an introduction to how to draw the heads at different perspectives. Overall, it's a short book, but it's packed with valuable techniques that have definitely improved my portrait drawings.

This would be a start for me

to explore and capture some facial expressions when drawing pictures of people. I'm an artist and I want to take my artwork to a higher ground and this book would be the template for future drawings.