This was an excellent beginner drawing guide for people. I am not an absolute beginning in portraits, but I struggle with the finer points of proportions and shading, which this book helps with significantly.

If you’re looking for either a basic guide for a beginner or a brush-up on tips on drawing people for an intermediate artist, this book is ideal.

This book is a great reference for any artist who is looking more into drawing people.
If you already know the basics of facial proportions and proportions to the body, you should be all set.
This book is not for those who do not know how to draw a face already, basic facial structure is not introduced.
I did like that the book goes thru different race and genders to give a better breakdown o features.

Excellent study in how to draw faces with expressions and depth, even using minimal lines and shading. Following these techniques produces quite professional-looking results.

It truly broke down all the drawings into nice 10 steps and I liked following along. Even without much previous experience you should be fine following along

It's hard for me not to laugh as I write this review, because my history with drawing people has been a little rough. Thankfully, Justine Lecouffe has provided steps that even this struggling teacher-artist is able to follow. I can't wait to use this book with my students!

I have read many books on this topic of basic drawing skills and they have all been wonderful including this one.
This is a great book for new artists and kids that can help in mastering basic skills of drawing.
It teaches art of drawing people in a step wise manner. A great book to gift to a art lover kid.

I like this book because justine leocouffee made drawing seem easy and her steps were pretty simple to follow. I'd highly recommend this book to anyone who would want to learn how to draw people.

This is a very clear book which does what it says on the tin - it shows you how to draw people in 10 steps. It starts by breaking down the face into nose, ears, eyes and mouth, before putting it together into a full face and then full body.

I particularly like the approach of outlining the shape of the body before putting clothes on it, in order to ensure angles and proportions are correct. This is a great approach for beginners to get a grip on drawing the human body.

There were two little niggles for me - one is that although it refers to drawing with pencils/pens and colouring using pencils and paints it looks like all of the illustrations have been done digitally which gives a different finish and one which may be difficult if not impossible to achieve using traditional methods. The other niggle is the awful font in which the instructions are written - a strange cursive which is not the easiest to read.

This would be a nice book for beginners who want to start exploring drawing the human form.

Similar to the other ten-step drawing book I reviewed, this book on drawing people is also very easy to follow along. I like that there is a diverse mix of people you could choose to draw in this book. I personally don't think I'd use this book again because I'd rather draw faces that I know, but this is a good book to get familiar with different faces.

I am technically challenged when it comes to drawing but my children are very good at it and while the libraries and art classes were closed during lockdown I thought that this book would be great help to my children who are still infants in their art.

It thankfully was and one of my children, aged 10, commented that the tips in the books helped her more than some of the drawing lessons she's had, which is high praise indeed.

Learn to draw people
Artist, illustrator, and graphic designer Justine Lecouffe's goal with the book "Ten-Step Drawing: People. Draw a range of figures & faces in ten easy steps", published by Quarto Publishing Group – Walter Foster, is to help aspiring illustrators, doodlers, and art hobbyists with the challenge of drawing faces and people. It is one of the books in the Ten-Step Drawing series that covers topics such as flowers, animals, and people. After the introduction to the book and some basic instructions Lecouffe has divided the book into two main parts: 1) Faces & Features (front view, side view, and three-quarter view) and 2) Body Parts & Figures. Lecouffe shows the basic principles of drawing in a step-by-step approach using blue guide lines as a help and shows how the drawings can be colored to finalize them. For this she includes color palettes with the drawings as inspiration. In spite of the fact that Lecouffe recommends colored pencils or watercolors for coloring, the book can be also helpful for artist who use other mediums.
This book is not only for aspiring illustrators, doodlers, and art hobbyists, it can be also useful for advanced artists and I can recommend it for those who want to learn to or improve their knowledge of drawing people. Nevertheless, it is important to note that the examples in this book are of "ordinary" women and men. There are no examples of children, nor of people with disabilities or of the elderly. Artists who want to improve their skills in these areas need to look elsewhere. Furthermore, there are no step-by-step instructions for the coloring, only for the drawing.
The complimentary copy of this book was provided by the publisher through NetGalley free of charge. I was under no obligation to offer a positive review. Opinions expressed in this review are completely my own.
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I received an advance reader copy of this book to read in exchange for an honest review via netgalley and the publishers.

10 step drawing people is a fantastic guide to drawing people within 10 simplified and detailed steps. These are clear and easy to follow steps and detailed drawings to accompany each piece. Parts focus on areas of the face (e.g the eyes, eyebrows, mouth etc) and the face itself and how to add the details. This is a great book for all stages of drawing.

Great and very well explained! There's a step by step teaching you how to draw people. It starts teaching you how to draw an eye, then a nose, an ear and a mouth. You will draw with the book, step by step and it's easier to follow. After leaning these parts of the face, you will draw a face and add the parts you've learnt and build the face. There are different women faces to try and then there's another set of eyes and parts of a face to learn and some men faces to try. You will also learn a side view face, different types of hair, three quarter faces, body parts and figures, hands and feet and more. Awesome for beginners! I received a free digital copy of this book from NetGalley in exchange for my honest review

I would not recommend this book. Even the title is misleading, as there is about 75% portraits, and some standing poses at the end. The artists approach is really static and flat, the is almost no shading and no dynamic in every face and every pose. The portraits are ok, it's definitely my taste that disagrees with the style. I still don't agree with the "teaching", as there is almost no information about proportion or perspective.
You don't really learn anything with this.

I found this drawing book helpful with gesture drawing, facial features, and clothing. Easy to follow step by step instructions. I would recommend this book to anyone interested in improving their drawing skills.

I received this book from NetGalley.

A good guide to drawing people in various poses. The book breaks out how to draw differing people posing. The book is a good step by step manual and can help many who wish to be able to draw faces and people. This is also a good reference book to have on hand for those occasions when a pose or figure is not correct. The step by step drawings and instructions can help find and fix the problem in your drawing.

Ten-Step Drawing: People is filled with instructions for drawing human faces and figures. The first section of the book focuses on different facial features, while the second section focuses on body figures. The steps are detailed and the pictures included are easy to follow. I liked how the artist focused on different features first (eys, mouth) then had you take those features and draw them into an entire face. I also enjoyed how different viewpoints were given so people can practice drawing different poses.

Lots of good information on the basics of drawing and capturing the facial features of both men and women,with various profiles and views. The second part of the book concentrates on the body, posture and poses.
I found this book very useful, with the information given in a relaxed way, giving the opportunity to use the information in sketches and interchangeable to various faces , figures and life drawing.

I am a stick drawer and this was totally beyond my artistic scope of skills! However, I thought the book was well written and developed. I enjoyed looking at the book and I wished that I had the abilities and potential to utilize a book of this caliber.

So, what I did was, I have a friend who has a 15 year old daughter who is a promising artist take a look at the book. I asked her what she thought of the book after she looked at it and she said, “ I really liked it “. What did you like about it? “ well, I already got tips on how to work on profile lines and I knew that was an area of the nose that I had some issues with.” Also, I picked up some other finer details about other areas that were pretty cool.” I am going to save money up, I liked the book”. I said thanks and then she said she wished she could have more time to study the book, but she only had an hour.
So, in her opinion it was 5 🌟 and mine as well! ⭐️

I received an advanced copy from NetGalley and these are my willingly given thoughts and opinions.

I did not inherit my Grandmother’s artistic skills. She successfully took up painting in her ‘70s, while I still struggle to doodle. So I was excited to read TEN-STEP DRAWING: PEOPLE, which gives an easy-to-follow process for what I think is the hardest artistic endeavor.

You’ll find illustrated tutorials for capturing a person from head to toe, face to figure to clothing. It’s a fine addition to Quarto’s excellent Ten-Step Drawing series — and so much fun!

Pub Date 01 Sep 2020

Thanks to Quarto Publishing Group – Walter Foster, and NetGalley for the review copies. Opinions are mine.

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