Ebook: Drawing and painting beautiful faces: a mixed-media portrait workshop

"Drawing and Painting Beautiful Faces is an inspiring, mixed media workbook on how to draw and paint beautiful, fashion illustration-style faces. Author Jane Davenport is a beloved artist, and popular international workshop instructor known by her thousands of students and fans for her over-the-top, enthusiastic, happy and encouraging style. In this book, she guides you step-by-step through the foundations of drawing a face, developing successful features, creating skintones, playing with bright colors, shading, highlighting and much more as you learn to create amazing mixed media portraits. Master a variety of techniques that employ pencil, marker, pen, watercolor, acrylic paint, ink, pastel, and ephemera as you happily dance your way through the exercises in this brilliant guide"--;1. Supplies me! -- Surfaces -- Gesso -- Acrylics & mediums -- Pastels -- Watercolor -- Pencils -- Ink -- Markers -- Pens -- Stencils -- Emphemera -- 2. Drawing the basics -- Draw happy -- Divide & conquer -- Grand scale -- The hot zones -- Jane-style whimsical proportions -- Spheres & light -- Latitude & longitude -- 3. Drawing the details -- Lip service -- Follow your nose -- The ears have it -- Jane's whimsical eyes -- Brows & lashes -- Hair -- Fringe & parts -- Curls & updos -- Wet & windy -- Twisted & braided -- 4. Paint & create -- Jane's whimsical techniques -- Into the shadows -- Layer love -- Frida collage-oh -- Prints charming -- Dreamy skin tones -- Glorious glazes -- Making clouds -- Stay free -- Very cheeky -- Drenched color -- Creating movement -- Hot mess -- Neon edges -- Blending in.