How to Draw Human Portraits: Step-By-Step [Large Print]

By Prasenjit Nath

A portrait is commonly perceived as the representation of a human being's features, whether the face, head and shoulders or the whole body. It has always been an important theme in figurative arts and a Favourite with artists, who have found in it, not just a professional genre well rewarded and socially appreciated for its symbolic or celebratory value, but also an interesting opportunity to investigate the human condition in its physical and, most of all, psychological aspect. It is this latter aspect which tends to predominate nowadays, as photography has greatly undermined the function of The drawn and painted portrait as the only way to reproduce and hand down for posterity an individual's physiognomic features. But this 'documentary' aspect was, of course, only one of the features of the artistic portrait.

• Format: Paperback
• Large Print: Yes
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0BP43M26W
• ISBN13: 9798366883344
• Release Date: November 2022
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 78 Pages
• Weight: 0.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.7" x 9.6"