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Summary: rules!
Review: This is a fine book for everyone who wants to further their drawing skills. It covers the book in detail and it also has a quick index in the back for reference. I like the painting of Rembrandt with the child screaming lol!
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Summary: Excellent Book
Review: This is a wonderful, unique resource for any artist depicting human heads and faces. As a professional who needs to recreate realistic human expressions in the computer, I keep it by my desk. Every step, from initially designing the head to every muscle involved in a pose, is explained and illustrated in detail.
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Summary: Great!
Review: This is an excellent book! It will NOT teach you HOW to draw (faces)- some basic drawing skills are necessary- but it will: Simply the process; Add some very usuful remarks; Point out the very little nuances needed to be noticed of while drawing; Give dozens of examples on each expression, and cover it completly. It's also written with a touch of humor- adds alot while browsing the book. If you want to draw expressions and faces in general better- but this book. It will make things easier for you; Things you can larn by years of experince are learnt by minuets of reading...
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Summary: The greatest book for portrait drawing which I had ever read
Review: This is an wondful book. It provides the reader all the essential material for improving their skill. As a beginner of portrait drawing, I need some detailed explanation and instruction for my self-learnig.This book can meet my requirement absolutely.Every page,and every word of the book is so valueable.The author fully understands what the reader needs. If you want to improve your portrait drawing skill and can not find a proper way, buying this book is the best choice.
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Summary: Learn to see what makes a face "tick"
Review: This is just the best book around to understand how to make a portrait alive with feeling. As the title states, it is all about facial expressions and not about drawing per se, or even portrait drawing. It lists the basic expressions, the main muscles of the face, and then goes on to illustrate how they are related and how expressions "work".The book is not as dry as this description sounds. The prose is witty. Most of the illustrations are purposeful pencil sketches or cartoons rather than academic portraits: they are very illustrative and to the point. Reading this book helped me understand better how to make a portrait come alive, by keeping all the features of the face coherent. It won't help you draw, but it will make you "see" better what makes up a face and an expression. Definitely 5 stars: the book is fun, easy to read, well bound, and as far as I can tell, exhaustive.
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Summary: Outstanding!
Review: This is the best book that you can buy for serious drawings of the face, without a doubt! I would give it more stars if I could!
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Summary: Faigin goes for the gold!
Review: Thousands of illustrations and drawings, both from the author than from well known artists from all periods. Systematical approach based on a basic method for drawing portraits, the understanding of the skull's volume and structure, as well as a study of facial muscles and their effect on expression. Covers at least 200 expressions in full detail with descriptive text and diagrams. Contains advice on learning techniques. ALL text is relevant and helps perfecting your drawing style. The author obviously CARES about the reader, and understands why people buy drawing books.
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Summary: extremely well done
Review: Yes, this is a book meant to be used by artists and enthusiasts, and it is good for that. I am using this book in another way. For people with NLD (Nonverbal Learning Disorders) and on the autistic spectrum (Pervasive Developmental Disorder(PDD), Autism and Aspergers) it is an invaluable instructive tool for teaching how to read facial expressions, and how we use our musculature to form these expressions. I'd been searching for a book like this for years, but was looking in all the wrong places: psychology, social skills, spectrum disorder studies, and psychiatric tomes directed toward the therapeutic community. Then I found this book, serendipitously, at an art store. I am so grateful! My son has high functioning autism, and is terribly frustrated trying to understand non-verbal and social language cues. This book satisfied him in every way, and he now studies it. Not only is he learning the difference between subtle facial expressions, but he is learning how these expressions are made, physiologically. He is becoming more expressive himself, and more able to understand the clues of every day social interactions. I have given this book as a gift to Speech/Language Pathologists who deal with Pragmatic Language skills, to Occupational Therapists, to psychologists and psychiatrists who run social skills groups to help kids and adults navigate the social maze, and to my nephew, a professional clown (on the order of Bill Irwin and Jeff Hoyle, not Emmet Kelley) who is fashioning an act involving social cluelessness (a very common subject in commedy, when you think about it). For these reasons, I highly recommend this book to professionals and parents who are the mentors, friends and teachers of NLD and spectrum disorder people and those people themselves. Terrific. I give it the highest possible marks.
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Summary: Excellent Guide for NLD and Autistic Spectrum Disorders
Review: Yes, this is a book meant to be used by artists and enthusiasts, and it is good for that. I am using this book in another way. For people with NLD (Nonverbal Learning Disorders) and on the autistic spectrum (Pervasive Developmental Disorder(PDD), Autism and Aspergers) it is an invaluable instructive tool for teaching how to read facial expressions, and how we use our musculature to form these expressions. I'd been searching for a book like this for years, but was looking in all the wrong places: psychology, social skills, spectrum disorder studies, and psychiatric tomes directed toward the therapeutic community. Then I found this book, serendipitously, at an art store. I am so grateful! My son has high functioning autism, and is terribly frustrated trying to understand non-verbal and social language cues. This book satisfied him in every way, and he now studies it. Not only is he learning the difference between subtle facial expressions, but he is learning how these expressions are made, physiologically. He is becoming more expressive himself, and more able to understand the clues of every day social interactions. I have given this book as a gift to Speech/Language Pathologists who deal with Pragmatic Language skills, to Occupational Therapists, to psychologists and psychiatrists who run social skills groups to help kids and adults navigate the social maze, and to my nephew, a professional clown (on the order of Bill Irwin and Jeff Hoyle, not Emmet Kelley) who is fashioning an act involving social cluelessness (a very common subject in commedy, when you think about it). For these reasons, I highly recommend this book to professionals and parents who are the mentors, friends and teachers of NLD and spectrum disorder people and those people themselves. Terrific. I give it the highest possible marks.
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