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Title: People & Portraits (Drawing in Color) by Lee Hammond ISBN: 1-58180-038-X Publisher: North Light Books Pub. Date: December, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3 (2 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Pretty medicore, sometimes awful
Comment: Ms. Hammond's pencil portrait book is not remarkable, but at least in that book she stuck to graphite -- not color.
This book shows a decided lack of colored pencil rendering technique. There are examples of awkward and somewhat untidy rendering coupled with mediocre drawing skills. This combination does not make for a good art instruction book.
Colored pencil can easily look messy and blotchy (or uneven) if rendered improperly. There were definitely some examples of that here. Also, one would assume that a portrait book would show, well, portraits that were well-drawn. Nope, not here. Some have misaligned features which are rendered with little sensitivity.
There also seems to be a lack of understanding about how to use color as well. Some of the shadows and dark colors are "overkill" and too harsh for the face.
However, to be fair, a few of the portraits were not bad. Some portraits used a deliberate "light touch" with a more limited color scheme (one portrait in particular springs to mind) and these looked better.
There was also little actual *drawing* instruction. Sorry, but just teaching the graph or grid method isn't going to hack it. That's just one tool used for drawing, and it very easily can become a crutch of that's all an artist knows how to do. What about drawing from life? How can someone use a graph or grid to draw from life?
I understand that the author is a very encouraging teacher and that's great. But my goodness! This certainly is not the best colored pencil book out there. A *much* better choice would by any colored pencil book by the fabulous Bet Borgeson. Now *that's* colored pencil done right.
Rating: 5
Summary: Great book
Comment: i think that is a great book. it explains all the techniqes in detail. and shows you step byt step how to the drawing and coloring. Lee Hammond does great work and i love her books.
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Title: How to Draw Lifelike Portraits from Photographs by Lee Hammond ISBN: 089134635X Publisher: North Light Books Pub. Date: March, 1995 List Price(USD): $24.99 |
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Title: Draw Real People! (Discover Drawing Series) by Lee Hammond ISBN: 0891346570 Publisher: North Light Books Pub. Date: October, 1996 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
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Title: Colored Pencil Portraits Step by Step by Ann Kullberg, Ann Kullberg ISBN: 0891348441 Publisher: North Light Books Pub. Date: March, 1999 List Price(USD): $27.99 |
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Title: Flowers & Nature by Lee Hammond ISBN: 1581800371 Publisher: North Light Books Pub. Date: December, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
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Title: Secrets to Drawing Realistic Faces by Carrie Stuart Parks ISBN: 1581802161 Publisher: North Light Books Pub. Date: March, 2003 List Price(USD): $23.99 |
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