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The Complete 8-Spoke Drawing Method

Simply follow these eight steps and get a likeness every time!

Produced by Portrait-Pro for Portrait Club

If you’ve always felt that drawing portraits is beyond you then this simple system for plotting the contour and features of the face will come as a very welcome surprise. Even if you’re a complete beginner you’ll be amazed how straightforward it can be.

You’ll be shown how to map the face by eye (no grids needed) so that nothing is left to chance. You’re told what decisions to make and how to make them. You simply put one foot in front of the other and arrive at a likeness of your model (or photograph). It takes no more than a couple of drawings to become familiar with the system so you can accurately ‘read’ and construct any face.You’re then given straightforward techniques that, with practice, will make you an accomplished portrait artist.

Whether you want to draw portraits for money or for pleasure (most likely both!) this book gives you precise instruction that will, once and for all, take the mystery out of capturing a likeness. The ‘Art’ in a portrait comes from the personal style that you’ll develop over time but the process of capturing a likeness is a science and can be broken down into simple steps.

The system uses triangulation, which has been used for accurately plotting positions relative to each other ever since the ancient Egyptians started drawing accurate maps. In addition it makes use of ten different techniques for checking the accuracy of your drawing, so you can always be sure that you’re ‘on track’ and that the end result is going to be a good likeness.

You’ll learn about perspective, negative shapes, foreshortening, and the ‘Picture Plane’.

You’ll then be shown exactly how to plot reference points by eye and build the underlying structure of your portrait before refining the initial framwork, breaking the head and face down into smaller shapes and identifying the details that convey the most information.

The ten techniques for checking your drawing are like a box of tools that can be used to fix all the problems that can occur while drawing a portrait. You’ll learn to use them constantly, giving you total confidence that your drawing is on-course, until eventually you find you’re using them without even knowing you’re doing it.

The Portrait-Pro book also covers techniques for blocking in tone, blending the graphite to achieve a sense of mass, and using fine hatching and light and dark ‘accents’ to give the drawing depth. You’ll cover all the techniques you need to produce a faithful likeness of your model (or photograph) and a beautiful drawing.