Drawing Portraits in Colored Pencil from Photographs

by Lee Hammond

Book Overview

Lee Hammond, writer/artist of the successful Discover Drawing series, creates a brand new sales opportunity with the Drawing in Color series, featuring the same realistic approach to drawing as... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0891347623
• ISBN13: 9780891347620
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Northlight
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 1.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.7" x 11.2"

Customer Reviews

The best book ever!

Wow! What a fantastic book! Lee Hammond tells you exactly what pencils, paper, all tools to use to create the most awesome drawings. My prints from what I have learned from her are now selling, thank you Lee! She teaches so well in her books that it is almost like you are sitting in a classroom with her! I VERY MUCH recommend this book! It is the so good!

Great technique

I found this book perfect for the kind of colored pencil work I wanted to do. It is great for learning how to burnish and improving on individual colors and features of the face, however, a host of other techniques outside of burnishing are not much mentioned. I would not recommend this book for beginners learning to draw but rather artists already familiar with the basics who want to pick up another medium. Of the 12 or so colored pencil books I've read, this is definitely in my top two.

Lee Hammond Does I t Again

If you liked her other books, you'll enjoy this Lee Hammond book dealing with colored pencil drawing. Try it, you'll like it.

Outstanding

An absolute must read for the frustrated portrait artist or anyone who wants to have a little fun creating lifelike portraiture. The tips, techniques and encouragement are worth well over the cover price on your first drawing attempt. Thanks, Lee, for sharing your trade secrets. I just got my first commission.

A must-read for any serious artist.

I sat down with the book and did the excersises and I was totally shocked that the portrait that I had tried to draw many times before had actually worked once I had read the book!! A day before, I could never have been able to produce a piece with such a likeness to what I was trying to draw..