A solid guide to drawing and painting, even for a newbie artist like me. I'll use some of the tips I've picked up in here to make stuff and it's quite good as a reference book.

This is the perfect book for, as the title says, expressive little faces!

I have recently started doing more sketching and persona work in my professional life. I loved the way the author Amarilys Henderson made a small face have a big personality.

Amarilys talks about choosing your simplicity, proportions and what features can't be missed (such as dimples and glasses)

I love her break down of face shapes and comparing building a face to building a pizza!

Amarilys provides you with eyes, noses and mouth to get you started on your face journey.

What a fun book if you have any interest in drawing whatsoever. That's why I requested to borrow this one thanks to Netgalley and Quarto Publishing Group!
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The author teaches from the beginning how to draw faces in stages so that anyone can do it.. She also explains how to get the lighting in the eyes and so many other techniques that beginners would love to learn. She teaches the different mediums you can use to draw faces, not just pencil! She explains how to choose and draw various hairstyles for your face.
There is so much to take away from this book. It is worth owning a physical copy.

This is definitely a must have for beginners and advanced artists alike! Obviously, reading the author bio, she is a seasoned vet in her craft (20 years experience minimum!) but this material heavily researched and presented in a way that is concise and easy to understand. Not to mention she presents diversity very early on and even has a small section on mixing different skin tones. This is truly a lovely resource and I look forward to purchasing a print copy for my own personal reference collection.

I really loved this informative book! It's great, whether you're a beginner, or an old pro, there's something new to learn. Great details, I highly recommend!

Drawing and Painting Expressive Little Faces is a step by step tutorial book by Amarilys Henderson. Released 18th Feb 2020 by Quarto on their Quarry imprint, it's 144 pages and will be available in hardcover and ebook formats.

This is a well presented and colorful tutorial guide for rendering faces in several media: watercolors, liquid pigment, paint paper pigments, and inks & markers. The tutorials are very well illustrated and include step by step process illustrations.

The tools and materials are universal and will already be owned by most artists. For readers starting from scratch, the basics are easily accessible and inexpensive. The introduction includes a good discussion of tools and materials and cover both practical (what paper to choose) to encouraging general advice (getting over the intimidation of starting and gaining confidence).

The instructional chapters break down the face into features, showing proportions and individual eyes, noses, hair, etc and then show the student how to build the parts into a cohesive and pleasing whole. The whole book is quite versatile, but I think the art is especially suited to (and I will use it for) enhancing bullet journals. I had been looking for a specific tutorial guide for bu-jo sketching and this is a nice one.

This would make a superlative selection for a makers group/studio or for the home library. The numerous well illustrated included tutorials are simple but really appealing.

Five stars.

Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes.

Really enjoyed this great step by step book about drawing and painting. Lots of great tips and examples that will encourage you in your artistic drawings.
Thank you NetGalley for the ARC!

Hi everyone!
This book is everything I wanted it to be! It perfectly helps you with learning how to draw expressive faces.
As the author said in the introduction: "This isn't a book on portraiture. It is a book on faces. What's the difference? Portraits tell us what we see, faces can describe who the person is".

This book takes you on a journey and tells you what materials to use and then there is a step by step guide on how to create face shapes, add eyes, nose, etc.
Also, this book is all centered around drawing faces with watercolor, which is very difficult but explained very well: in fact, it helps with skin tones and for small features how to go from graphite to water.
At the end of the book, there is also a section on how to add personality: with color and features such as freckles and glasses.

I love drawing portraits and I always struggle with "giving life" to the faces and this will definitely help! In fact, I recommend this book to everyone who, like me, wants to improved drawing expressive little faces.

Beautiful to look at and helpful tips. Still intimidated by faces but like having the resource and i will look to it for some support ! A lot of tools laid out in the beginning that I likely won’t buy so I do wish there was a variation on this part but I also understand the point was to teach watercolor faces. Awesome!

Thanks to publishers and Netgalley for an ARC in exchange for an honest review

Great book! I love drawing and watercolor and I've always struggled with faces. This book tells you what supplies to use and some tips. It teaches you about face proportion, angles, shapes and then how to build a face. I found it a bit hard but I'm still trying! I received a free copy of this book from NetGalley in exchange for my honest review

Absolutely amazing drawing book!
The book goes through every step on how to draw small adorable faces. Amarilys Henderson is so so talented and provides so many helpful tips and examples of how to draw each step. I absolutely recommend to all who want some fun art projects!

I read more arts and crafts books than I truly use. I feel like even a book I am not in love with, there is something interesting to read. This book? I actually grabbed a sketchbook and started doodling faces. Maybe because faces are what I enjoy doodling the most. Or maybe just because the author is really good at giving tips and tricks for drawing simple looking little faces (not always as simple as they look).

The author covers the main facial features both how to doddle them and how to paint them. Then finishes with how to add some character to them, including things to look out for with different age ranges..

Definitely useful. The type of book that makes you pick up your pencil, pen, or brush right away.

I loved this book. A very clear step by step guide to drawing faces.

The book starts with a comprehensive chapter on materials before getting into the details of the face.

Each chapter has a number of simple exercises which help to build up realistic, expressive faces, starting with the 'egg trick' although she uses a fruit to show how faces appear at different angles, moving onto the individual features of the face.

Whilst much of the style is very cartoon-like some of the exercises are for more realistic renditions of faces.

I think this is good for beginners but also for more established artists to brush up their skills.

A great guide for the beginner, this is a book full of ideas for painting faces. It takes you through all the different aspects of the face and how to paint or draw them step-by-step. In six colourful and well illustrated chapters we are instructed on how to build a face. It starts by looking at suggested equipment and then it is all about the painting. It takes you through each aspect of the face and hair, and then looks at how to pull it all together with particularly useful guidance on how to inject a little personality. Now, where are my paints? Thank you to Amarilys Henderson, Net Galley and the publisher, Quarto for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

Excellent book it has great tutorials covering face shapes and face symmetry. It has very well done tutorials guided step by step which make it look easy... It really isn't but the tips in this book are incredibly helpful. It also takes you through each part of the face to help build the correct perspective and bring realism to you artwork.

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Drawing and Painting expressive Little Faces is a wonderful addition to any artist's reference or "how-to" library. It includes a great deal of information about how to capture expressions and make them appear as realistic as possible with various media. Well done.

The author starts you off simple- by simplifying the face, you get to understand the shapes it is made up of, and that helps you to understand the space relationships of the eyes to the nose, for example. From their she builds up the simple face, so that you build memory of how to make a face. From there it is adding expression and characteristics, and then moving on to using color is an effective way to show shadows, uniqueness and features. It really is like having an at home art lesson series! And since you can get it on Kindle, you can get it right NOW, and let the kids learn alongside YOU! It is aimed more at adults, but teens will find it easy to follow along with as well.

Art is really therapeutic, and with many of us having a couple more weeks at home, this could be just the thing you need to keep occupied, now that you've cleaned and ran out of things to do!

This is an amazing find! The book gives you diverse ideas from the standard face shape. There are also ideas on things as basic as mouth and smaller shape.

This was a pretty neat book solely dedicated to drawing and coloring faces and hair. I loved the title! The faces are varied, amusing, and interesting. They're not photo-realistic, nor are they caricatures or cartoonish. They're somewhere in between, and the book shows how to create them and what techniques to use.

It begins with materials - paint, ink, pencils, brushes and paper, and moves on to a consideration of facial shapes and proportions, and where to place the features, and not only for a face looking squarely at the viewer, but for faces at assorted angles. There are several pages devoted to eyes and eyebrows, and how to place the highlight in the eye. There are several more pages on noses and mouths, and more on developing facial expressions. In short there's a lot to learn and nothing missed, with lots of tips and good advice along the way.

I commend this as a useful and worthy read.

Took me this long to relise that the length of the nose is shown only when the person is at an angle. Started with focus on eyes and then moved onto other features. Ther are about 20 options to make your person. All this with water colors. Fun book. Do try it out. I like the insistence on patience as it takes a while to practise and get better at drawing one of the toughest things... faces.