Apr 132013
How To Draw Lifelike Portraits From Photographs – Revised: 20 step-by-step demonstrations with bonus DVD
How To Draw Lifelike Portraits From Photographs, Revised Lee Hammond is back and better than ever, featuring all new step-by-step demonstrations that will have you drawing your best portraits yet. Her secret to success? The Hammond Blended Pencil Technique,” a proven method of shading and blending that captures the soft tones and dimensional shapes of skin, hair and clothing. Focusing first on individual facial features, you’ll follow her easy three-step process for realistically rendering even
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Great book, but extremely disappointed with the printing,
First of all, let me just state that Lee Hammond’s work is, as always, fantastic, and her instruction unparalleled. This review focuses on the presentation — namely, the printing.
I had (and still have) the original version of this book prior to purchasing this one, but needed this version since it covers a more ethnically diverse group of subjects than the original. I was extremely excited about getting this book (I was actually half way done with a portrait, and needed help with some of the features not covered in the first version).
I was, therefore, profoundly disappointed when it finally arrived, and I saw the inferior print quality. The original is printed in very high quality, so you can see all the details of Hammond’s work. The same portraits, reproduced in this version, look sketchy and not at all up to Hammond’s standards because of the inferior printing.
Was it really worth saving a little bit of money to ruin an art book — the whole point of which is what you see?! I would gladly have paid another $10 to get a book of equal printing quality to the first. Instead, I am very much disappointed. I now only use this book for the ethnic-portrait instruction that was missing from the first; for everything else, I refer to the original (and its quality printing).
1/5 — a fantastic product ruined by the company’s cheapness
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|Disappointed,
I was disappointed with this book based on the quality of the first one. Except for the copies taken from the original book, the illustrations in this book do not look real. They look to have been poorly cut and pasted. There is no new or (revised)information that I can discern, and the bonus DVD is a joke. To the author, I say shame on you. To potential buyers, I say buy the original (blue book) or keep looking. Good luck.
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|So happy with this book,
I started drawing portraits of my daughter from photos after losing her to cancer last year. Then I was given the name of this book and author and ordered it. It arrived the day before we were flying to Mexico and I read the whole book on the plane. I found a store in Mexico that sold the needed supplies and the first portrait I did was really good. Everyone liked it and thought I had potential. I have since recommended the book to others. With time I have improved in my drawing and I think this is a great book for those who want to draw very nice portraits. And I say if I can do it, anyone can. Go for it!
I have read a super-critical, long-winded review of this book that told me that I will never be a great artist using this book. I say so what! I draw beautiful portraits that are pleasing to my subjects and myself. Since I am 71 years old I don’t intend to be the “professional” that the long-winded reviewer pretends to be. People are happy with my portraits and so am I. I am very grateful to Lee Hammond for this book.
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