Portraying children : expressions, proportions, drawing and painting techniques
(Book)

"This book offers a method for acquiring a good command of painting and illustration techniques. Using live models, photgraphs, videos, drawing of faces and entire bodies, either posing or simply naturally, the book explains step by step the specific characteristics of drawing children. Through and introduction to proportions and by teaching readers how to sketch more freely, it captures both the physical and psychological transformation in an exercise in introspection and memory of one's own childhood. The book is intended for illustrators and lovers of drawing, parents and relatives, and anyone else who wants to capture the memorable, enchanting and fleeting moment associated with childhood. Because, in reality, drawing is learning how to see, how to understand and how to love."--Provided by publisher.