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Drawing Using Grids: Portraits with Character Giovanni Civardi

Drawing Using Grids: Portraits with Character By Giovanni Civardi

Drawing Using Grids: Portraits with Character by Giovanni Civardi


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Summary

The go-to drawing guide for quick, easy and expressive portraiture.

Drawing Using Grids: Portraits with Character Summary

Drawing Using Grids: Portraits with Character by Giovanni Civardi

From world-renowned artist Giovanni Civardi, this highly practical guide uses the traditional grid technique to make the process of creating a characterful portrait drawing both simple and accessible.

Starting from a photograph, Civardi shows you how to create an accurate pencil sketch of the subject by overlaying a grid and transferring the image one square at a time. The drawing is then rendered in easy stages to create a finished portrait. Even the most complex of subjects can be broken down into easy steps using this method, and by following the numerous, step-by-step exercises the reader will very soon be producing highly detailed drawings based on photographs of their own.

Drawing Using Grids: Portraits with Character Reviews

May 2018

Giovanni Civardi has spent decades drawing, painting and teaching portraiture and has written numerous books on the subject. The lastest two provide a quick solution to students wanting to draw expressive portraits, using grids to capture their subjects accurately. Starting from a photograph, Giovanni clearly explains how to create a pencil sketch, using a grid to transfer one section at a time. With practice the student will be able to create detailed drawings from photgraphs and build the confidence to tackle subject from life.

* The Leisure Painter *

Summer 2018

Artists have been using grids to aid perspective and proportion for centuries. The basic idea itself is as simple as it sounds. As ever Giovanni Civardi proceeds largely by example and with few or no words. Initial remarks cover features in proportion and are useful in themselves. The remainder of the book covers a series of worked examples that show you how to lay the basic shapes out on an 8x10 grid and then fill in size, shape, shadows and detail. Its devastatingly simple and disarmingly effective.

* The Artist *

About Giovanni Civardi

GIOVANNI CIVARDI was born in Milan in 1947. While training to become a sculptor, portrait artist and illustrator at the Free Life-Study School of the Accademia di Brera, he also studied medicine and surgery. For over a decade, he worked as an illustrator, producing commissions for newspapers, magazines and book covers. During frequent trips to France and Denmark, Civardi put on one-man exhibitions of this work and pursued his interest in studying the relationship between medical anatomy and the human form as depicted by the artist. His experience gained from teaching anatomy, life drawing and portraiture in schools and institutions over many years has led to the publication of numerous books in which Civardi's experiences are brought into focus.

Table of Contents

3 Introduction
4 Anatomy
6 Features and proportions
10 Approaches to drawing
16 Portrait gallery
78 Finding inspiration

Additional information

GOR009686784
9781782215318
178221531X
Drawing Using Grids: Portraits with Character by Giovanni Civardi
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Search Press Ltd
20180212
80
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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