Contents

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Chapter 1

Purpose

Evidence of Your Journey

How to Use This Book

Keeping a Sketchbook and an Art Journal

Artists Share: Sketchbooks vs. Art Journals

Chapter 2

Proportion

Self-Guided Face Mapping

Mini-Demonstration: Face Mapping, Front View

Mini-Demonstration: Face Mapping, Side View

Mini-Demonstration: Face Mapping, Three-Quarter View

Female vs. Male Face Facts

The Tilt

Mini-Demonstration: Mapping Your Selfie

Lights and Darks

Head Mass

Mini-Demonstration: Face Planes

Mini-Demonstration: Eyes

Eye Variations

Mini-Demonstration: Ears

Ear Variations

Mini-Demonstration: Noses

Mini-Demonstration: Mouths

Mini-Demonstration: Face Mapping From a Photo

Chapter 3

Personality

Bending the Rules

Piecing Together Portraits

Reusing Your Sketches

Artists Share: Style

Chapter 4

Palette

Mixing Skin Tones

Tonal Values

Hue, Tint, Tone and Shade

Going Gray Naturally

Mini-Demonstration: Neutral Color Mixing

Mini-Demonstration: Wet- and Dry-Mixing Color Wheels

Artists Share: Creating Faces

Chapter 5

Projects

Project 1: Painting With Crayons

Project 2: Sketching Without Pencils

Project 3: Yippee for Yupo

Project 4: The Real Hue

Project 5: Waxing PanPastels

Project 6: Portraits in the Bag

Project 7: Resisting Gouache

Project 8: Polyester Print Playground

Project 9: Skin Tones

Project 10 | Part 1: Facing the Thermofax

Project 10 | Part 2: Alternate Silk Screen Method

Project 11: Transfer Overlay

Project 12: Block Heads

Project 13: Complementary Complexion

Project 14: Busting Out

Project 15: Scratching My Head

Artists Share: Techniques

Templates

Resources

About the Contributing Artists

About the Author

Acknowledgments