Learn Something New With Drawing and Painting Expressive Little Faces from Amarilys Henderson

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Step-by-Step Techniques for Creating People and Portraits with Personality--Explore Watercolors, Inks, Markers, and More

Synopsis:
In Drawing and Painting Expressive Little Faces, artist and popular Skillshare instructor Amarilys Henderson shares her practical and creative techniques for drawing and painting faces with style and personality.Gathering supplies. Consider the creative possibilities of watercolor, ink, and markers, and create a mobile sketch pack so you can capture faces and expressions on the go.
Simplifying the face and identifying proportions: Use photos to simplify the face’s key elements, learn about facial proportions and factors and variables for placing facial features, and apply these concepts through a simple warm up using a single color to paint a face in multiple values.Facial shapes and features. Learn about the five basic facial shapes and how to modify the chin line, ears, and hairline, and how to draw and paint mouths, eyes, and noses and make alterations to show pose and personality. 
Mixing color: The pigments and brushes you’ll need to achieve a wide range of realistic skin tones, shadows, and expressions.Bringing faces to life. Navigate the process from start to finish, learn to adjust line quality to suggest different genders and ethnicities, and change up artistic styling to put a unique spin on your creations. 
Project ideas: Get inspired by some cool ways to apply your new skills: party invitations, repeat patterns, comic books, and more! 
Don’t be intimidated by the challenge of drawing and painting faces. Improve your face game with Drawing and Painting Expressive Little Faces!

Review:
The author starts you off simple- by simplifying the face, you get to understand the shapes it is made up of, and that helps you to understand the space relationships of the eyes to the nose, for example. From their she builds up the simple face, so that you build memory of how to make a face. From there it is adding expression and characteristics, and then moving on to using color is an effective way to show shadows, uniqueness and features. It really is like having an at home art lesson series! And since you can get it on Kindle, you can get it right NOW, and let the kids learn alongside YOU!  It is aimed more at adults, but teens will find it easy to follow along with as well.
Art is really therapeutic, and with many of us having a couple more weeks at home, this could be just the thing you need to keep occupied, now that you've cleaned and ran out of things to do!

About the Author:
Amarilys Henderson is a watercolor illustrator who specializes in surface design. She enjoys bringing the dynamic vibrancy of watercolor to everyday products, from paper to porcelain. Her experience in print design influences much of her work, which found its renaissance in new motherhood and refreshed faith. Amarilys is a Top Teacher on online teaching platform Skillshare, where she shares her creative techniques in bite-sized lessons. She currently has 84,000 students who have watched almost 2.5 million minutes of class time. Amarilys lives in Rochester, Minnesota. See more of her work on watercolordevo.com