Drawing on the latest developments in China’s art school entrance exams and years of front-line teaching experience at Tianjiao School, this book is a comprehensive pre-exam guide to drawing portraits, tailored for students preparing for art school admissions. Focusing on the most challenging and frequently tested aspects of exam sketching, it provides a thorough, step-by-step guide to drawing portraits. Across six chapters, it covers everything from basic theory and studies of individual features to exercises based on photographs and finished works. The book includes numerous demonstrations of young men and women, along with accompanying instructional videos, giving readers clear references so they can quickly and easily master portrait sketching techniques for the exams. More specifically, the book focuses on drawing young adult male and female faces from live models in photographs. Readers learn how head shapes, light and shade, and local color change with different viewing angles. By studying these elements, they can learn the shapes, textures, and expressions of the head and facial features, as well as the methods and steps involved in portrait studies, thereby mastering the techniques of portrait sketching. The many step-by-step portrait exercises help artists build well-rounded, systematic skills in composition, form, proportion and perspective, modeling, texture, volume, and technique.
