Colored pencil painter Alyona Nickelsen reveals how to use the medium to push
the limits of realistic portraiture.
Colored Pencil Painting Portraits provides straightforward solutions to the
problems that artists face in creating lifelike images, and will prime readers
on the intricacies of color, texture, shadow, and light as they interplay with
the human form. In this truly comprehensive guide packed with step-by-step
demonstrations, Nickelsen considers working from photo references versus live
models; provides guidance on posing and lighting, as well as planning and
composing a work; discusses tools, materials, and revolutionary layering
techniques; and offers lessons on capturing gesture and expression and on
rendering facial and body features