Drawing People Using Grids - Softcover

Civardi, Giovanni

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1782218009 ISBN 13: 9781782218005

Publisher: Search Press, 2021

Synopsis

If you have often struggled to draw portraits or moving people, from master artist Giovanni Civardi comes this highly visual beginners guide to drawing people using the traditional grid technique – a method that makes the first stages of drawing simple and achievable.

Artist Giovanni Civardi shows you how to create an accurate pencil sketch of the subject by laying a grid over a photo or drawing and transferring the image to the drawing surface one square at a time.

Beginning with a summary of basic human anatomy and key drawing techniques, this book contains over 90 outlines of people in a range of ages, profiles and poses, with guidance on how to add shading and tonal effects to create more detailed finished drawings. Uses material from Drawing Using Grids: Portraits with Character and Drawing Using Grids: Portraits of Babies & Children.

About this title

About the Author

Giovanni Civardi is a best-selling Italian artist and author, with over 600,000 copies of his books sold worldwide in English alone. Civardi was born in Milan, Italy in 1947. While training to become a sculptor, portrait artist and illustrator at the Free Life-Study School of the Accademia di Brera, he also studied medicine and surgery. For over a decade, he worked as an illustrator, producing commissions for newspapers, magazines and book covers. During frequent trips to France and Denmark, Civardi put on one-man exhibitions of this work and pursued his interest in studying the relationship between medical anatomy and the human form as depicted by the artist. His experience gained from teaching anatomy, life drawing and portraiture in schools and institutions over many years has led to the publication of numerous books in which Civardi's experiences are brought into focus. For more work and information visit his website: www.giovannicivardi.it.

From the Back Cover

Create accurate, characterful portraits from your favourite photographs using the simple grid method.

In this highly visual guide, best-selling master artist Giovanni Civardi shows you how to use the traditional grid technique to draw people of all ages and in a variety of poses.

By simply laying a grid over a photograph or drawing, you can transfer the image to paper one square at a time. Once the transfer is complete, Civardi will show you how to finish off your drawing for a professional portrait.

Beginning with a summary of the human form and basic drawing techniques, over 90 step-by-step exercises follow, ranging from simple portraits of adults and children to characterful faces and people in motion.

Uses material from Drawing Using Grids: Portraits with Character and Drawing Using Grids: Portraits of Babies & Children.

Edition details

• Publisher: Search Press
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1782218009
• ISBN 13: 9781782218005
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240