Drawing & Painting Portraits in Watercolour

Portraits are timeless and enthralling, and a discipline to which many artists aspire. Experienced artist David Thomas demonstrates how to use watercolour, pencil and charcoal to produce rewarding results in your portrait work. This book will show you how to fill your paintings with life and character, and explain clearly how to build your sketches up into more developed drawn artwork, and from there to inspiring watercolour portraits.

Learn to use watercolour, pencil and charcoal to produce fresh and approachable portraits invested with life and character.

• Five step-by-step portrait demonstrations
• Information on design, composition and lighting
• Close-up exploration of eyes, hands and hair to help you perfect your portraits