This book is aimed at novices, dabblers, and people interested in painting and drawing faces. This is not a book about portraits, or anatomy, but a well-guided step-by-step tour on painting colorful likenesses of people using a less-is-more approach.
It is a cute little book, and I think even people new to watercolor will get good results on their first tries.
I really don't dig the part containing Gender: Male/Female, though. Either, she means biological sex, or she should have included a small part that acknowledges everyone not falling in those categories.

I recommend this book for anyone who is interested in improving their drawing skills. It starts off with a great section on art supplies and then explains about facial proportions before building up the face gradually from its components. A great resource for shapes, I really enjoyed working through this book.

Drawing faces has always been hard for me. This book is amazing though. It's full of useful information and tips to help you step up your game. I highly recommend it

This is a beautiful book with so many creative ideas. If you are new to painting, this is probably not the book for you. It seems best for those who have a basic understanding of drawing and painting and the list of essential supplies is definitely better for those who already have them or use them. It is a great guide expressive faces and I love the colors used to make it so vibrant. It really brings simplified faces to life!

Loved the book and all the examples of different type of faces. I also love how detailed the book was and how it showed every single step and the material you need to use. Would definitely recommend.

In this book, we see how fabulous faces can be created with easy guides to follow from what you need to get started through to how to create each tiny detail needed to illustrate the person's story on their face through either pencil, watercolour etc.



This is a delightful guide at how to draw and illustrate faces, I always struggle to get features right but this is a fabulous book to help perfect technique and beautifully vibrant too the book is a work of art and brilliant for artists!



Many thanks to the publishers for allowing me to review this book for them!

Drawing and Painting Expressive Little Faces
Step-by-Step Techniques for Creating People and Portraits with Personality--Explore Watercolors, Inks, Markers, and More
by Amarilys Henderson
I love to do watercolor paintings but faces are so scary! I loved this book and cannot wait to purchase it for a physical copy to work through and use for reference. The author is so fun and forgiving with her teaching method throughout the book you can not help but feel comfortable as you try each prompt. If you are a novice or confident painter I think this book is a great resource to add to your bookshelf.
I received a copy of this book via NetGalley in exchange for my honest review, shared here.

This book is an art instruction book about creating somewhat stylized faces with marker, pencil, and watercolor. For each part of the face, the author showed how to make a very simple version and then how to add detail with just another mark to create more and more detailed variations. She talked about the proportions of a face and how to create the basic facial shapes, ears, eyes, noses, mouths, and hair. She then showed how to put these elements together to create a unique face along with adding accessories. She talked some about how to create different skin tones, though she's not highly realistic with skin or hair color. She also suggested ways to use these expressive faces in urban sketching, personalized cards, etc. Overall, I'd recommend this book to teens and adults who want to learn how to draw and watercolor paint somewhat stylized but expressive faces.

Drawing and Painting Expressive Little Faces is full of artful whimsy and delight that is inspiring for beginner artists, young and old. The details are explicit and laid out in such a way that is easy to follow. This tome leans more towards watercolors, which may be a bit offputting to a true beginner. There is a brief mention of pencil but the pivot is a quick turn to watercolor. Still, the author's enthusiasm for color is infectious. Also, shading and value are not as explicit as other step by step guides. Nonetheless, I found this a delightful read and cannot wait to try drawing and painting a few expressive little faces myself.

"Drawing and Painting Expressive Little Faces" is so beautiful and bright and truly a lovely inspiring and positive read. The 'you can do it!' attitude is informative and positive without being too sickly sweet. Just perfection.

The art is lovely throughout and shows a satisfying scale of progression. I found many things to value here. In particular I had not realised just how much I struggle to differentiate when drawing between masculine and feminine features without over simplifying the men.

The watercolour sections are lovely and as a novice I find them to be accessible and visually inspiring. I get scared of overworking with paints, which leaves me losing detail, so the colour blending techniques and practices for layering features were particularly useful.

The bright colours are wonderfully appealing and would absolutely recommend this for anyone interested that is of a beginner to intermediate level.

[This eARC was given to me via Quarry Books & NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.]

This is a lovely art book that simplifies painting faces so that anyone can try it. There is plenty of information about art supplies included, so the beginner is well catered to. The medium used is watercolour, and the step-by-step instructions are great, even if you have not drawn or painted before.

I received a free digital copy via NetGalley, but the opinions expressed are my own.

I found Amarilys Henderson on Skillshare and loved her cute little tutorial for little faces. I learned a lot.
The book is perfect for beginner, since the techniques are easy to follow. I also recommend to take her Skilshare class.
I wish she included more step by step tutorial in this book.

Thank you NetGalley for my complimentary copy in return for my review.

What a fun book! Her techniques are so fun and unique and are usable in any type of drawing not just watercolor. I like that she makes you comfortable drawing faces, which can be very intimidating. This was an ARC copy from Netgalley.

This is an exceptional book to help you draw or paint faces. It's designed to give people of any experience level the tools to make nice little faces, with tons of information about all of the steps. The author gives pages of examples of eyes, noses, eyebrows, etc. to copy so you can personalize your faces and practice both simple and complex features. She goes into materials, steps, you name it. I really liked the fact that she shows you how to do different levels of complexity too -- here's how to do really simple eyes, all the way to here's how to do very elaborate ones.

This is a fantastic tool especially well suited to novice artists who want to improve their art. Kids should be able to use it well, too.

I read a temporary digital ARC of this book for the purpose of review.

When I requested this book I did not realize the painting she was referring to was watercolor. Even though it was not acrylic or oil painting, I found this book very helpful. Many of the techniques are the same as any medium.

Amaruils explanation of facial proportions and how to notice the important characteristics to make a face look distinguishable was very helpful. She demonstrates how to use photos to find the darkest darks. She gave good advice on how to draw and paint each facial feature.

This book is excellent for a beginner.

I received this galley from NetGalley.

A good beginner guide to drawing faces with character and expression. The different features are carefully explained and the author gives some good tips on making up a face with the different parts. He gives some good up to date pointers for how to improve your faces and what to observe and focus on. There is enough good foundation instruction for any beginner to become confident and fairly competent in producing characterful faces.

Drawing and Painting Expressive Little Faces was a delightful read. As an educator, not only was this book a valuable resource for my students but for myself. I was able to use the pages about facial proportion and the fun fruit activity to demonstrate proper placement of facial features with students from pre-K to 4th grade.

One excellent feature for my students was that Amarilys provided different skill levels of facial drawing and painting and how they might look in more detail. This was encouraging to them, as they saw the gradient of skill levels that they could one day achieve.

This book is colorful, quirky, fun, and definitely a book that I would recommend to fellow educators who might not have a strong art background. It was just the confidence booster that I needed! Thank you, Netgalley and Quarry Books for the ARC. This is my honest review.

This was a really cute art book. You can definitely use this if you're a beginner as the author gives good explanationds and ideas to mix and match eyes, face shapes and mouths.
I especially liked the idea of the gift wrapping paper and personalized face gift tags.

A beautiful, easy to follow beginners guide to drawing and painting people. The illustrations and photography are stunning.

AUTHOR

Amarilys Henderson is the author of Drawing and Painting Expressive Little Faces you can learn more about her here or visit her web page here.

WHO IS THE TARGET AUDIENCE?

This book is directed towards those novice artists who want to gain a fundamental understanding of how to draw facial structure.

SYNOPSIS

Drawing and Painting Expressive Little Faces is a concise yet comprehensive introduction to painting and drawing faces.

The guide is resplendent with striking, bright, and colorful portrayals of human face interpretations. The informal and lively images are a mix of color and monochrome. The format is in the traditional style with six subdivided chapters.

1. Essential Supplies

2. Simplifying the Face

3. Building A Face

4. Putting it All Together

5. Pumping up the Personality

6. Not just Doodles

Amarilys Henderson included specific sections on how to draw a range of ages, face types, face shapes and skin colors. It is important to note that the faces are not in the style of fine art but are far more immature poster paint style of illustrations. Happily, this book is not comporting itself as fine art. It is most definitely centered in the use of a stylized facial images, surreal and assessable for the novice artist rather than the advanced practitioner. This doesn’t detract in any way from this useful guide. However, I want to ensure that the reader understands that this is for the novice, student or hobby artist.

CONCLUSION

Henderson has managed to cram a world of knowledge in a 144 pages. The presentation is truly exciting with original alternative interpretations of the human face.

I particularly was taken with the subsection on how to add personality to a face. I have reviewed a dozen or so art and design publications recently and none of them included this crucial method.

I was immensely happy to see that she included some Urban Sketching however, I wish this section had been more comprehensive.

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

I would like to thank Quarry Books, NetGalley, and Amarilys Henderson for affording me the opportunity to review Drawing and Painting Expressive Little Faces .