Ten-Step Drawing: People: Draw a range of figures & faces in ten easy steps

Artist, illustrator, and graphic designer Justine Lecouffe's goal with the book "Ten-Step Drawing: People. Draw a range of figures & faces in ten easy steps", published by Quarto Publishing Group – Walter Foster, is to help aspiring illustrators, doodlers, and art hobbyists with the challenge of drawing faces and people. It is one of the books in the Ten-Step Drawing series that covers topics such as flowers, animals, and people. After the introduction to the book and some basic instructions Lecouffe has divided the book into two main parts: 1) Faces & Features (front view, side view, and three-quarter view) and 2) Body Parts & Figures. Lecouffe shows the basic principles of drawing in a step-by-step approach using blue guide lines as a help and shows how the drawings can be colored to finalize them. For this she includes color palettes with the drawings as inspiration. In spite of the fact that Lecouffe recommends colored pencils or watercolors for coloring, the book can be also helpful for artist who use other mediums.This book is not only for aspiring illustrators, doodlers, and art hobbyists, it can be also useful for advanced artists and I can recommend it for those who want to learn to or improve their knowledge of drawing people. Nevertheless, it is important to note that the examples in this book are of "ordinary" women and men. There are no examples of children, nor of people with disabilities or of the elderly. Artists who want to improve their skills in these areas need to look elsewhere. Furthermore, there are no step-by-step instructions for the coloring, only for the drawing.The complimentary copy of this book was provided by the publisher through NetGalley free of charge. I was under no obligation to offer a positive review. Opinions expressed in this review are completely my own.#TenStepDrawingPeople #NetGalley

It's been said that humans are the hardest to draw accurately and I totally agree based on my own experiences! But following the steps laid out in this book I found that I can draw some pretty good portraits, if I may say so myself!I am really enjoying this series as the artists are good and draw beautifully. Ten steps are given for you so it is really pretty detailed. I like the focus on different parts of the face and body that will help hone the drawing skills of those parts such as the eyes, the nose, the mouth, the hands and the feet. The two pages on body proportions are priceless for getting things to look right!The color suggestions for hair and skin are very helpful.Just one suggestion: It would have been great to have each new step in a different color from the previous one for easier reference as we follow along.This book does not fully help with drawing a likeness for portraits though. I think that is a different skill altogether and one that I hope the publisher will address in a future step-by-step book.I also hope I will have the opportunity to see the other titles in this lovely series!

I am a stick drawer and this was totally beyond my artistic scope of skills! However, I thought the book was well written and developed. I enjoyed looking at the book and I wished that I had the abilities and potential to utilize a book of this caliber.So, what I did was, I have a friend who has a 15 year old daughter who is a promising artist take a look at the book. I asked her what she thought of the book after she looked at it and she said, “ I really liked it “. What did you like about it? “ well, I already got tips on how to work on profile lines and I knew that was an area of the nose that I had some issues with.” Also, I picked up some other finer details about other areas that were pretty cool.” I am going to save money up, I liked the book”. I said thanks and then she said she wished she could have more time to study the book, but she only had an hour.So, in her opinion it was 5 🌟 and mine as well! ⭐️I received an advanced copy from NetGalley and these are my willingly given thoughts and opinions.

Ten-Step Drawing: PeopleDraw a range of figures & faces in ten easy stepsby Justine LecouffeThis is a book I requested from NetGalley and the review is voluntary.This book is a must for those that want to draw faces or people. The book shows how to draw each facial feature from different angles and different types of the same feature! Then it proceeds to do the same for bodies. Men and women, different poses, different people, and different angles. I thought it was very thought out and detailed. Each one was broken down into parts. The book was bigger than I expected. Another Walter Foster book I am going to buy! I grew up with them in my home, my father 's hobby was painting and I saw these books all my life!

I did not inherit my Grandmother’s artistic skills. She successfully took up painting in her ‘70s, while I still struggle to doodle. So I was excited to read TEN-STEP DRAWING: PEOPLE, which gives an easy-to-follow process for what I think is the hardest artistic endeavor.You’ll find illustrated tutorials for capturing a person from head to toe, face to figure to clothing. It’s a fine addition to Quarto’s excellent Ten-Step Drawing series — and so much fun!Pub Date 01 Sep 2020Thanks to Quarto Publishing Group – Walter Foster, and NetGalley for the review copies. Opinions are mine.#TenStepDrawingPeople #NetGalley

Lots of good information on the basics of drawing and capturing the facial features of both men and women,with various profiles and views. The second part of the book concentrates on the body, posture and poses.I found this book very useful, with the information given in a relaxed way, giving the opportunity to use the information in sketches and interchangeable to various faces , figures and life drawing.

I found this drawing book helpful with gesture drawing, facial features, and clothing. Easy to follow step by step instructions. I would recommend this book to anyone interested in improving their drawing skills.I received this book from NetGalley.