Draw 500 Faces And Features

Description

A pocket-sized sketchbook filled with 500 inspirational illustrations featuring a variety of faces and features. A new fun format for Quarry's best-selling 20 Ways to Draw a Mustache and 44 Funny Faces and Features by illustrator and designer Cara Bean, this cute chunky volume features 500 inspirational illustrations in a perfect small size for drawing on the go! From braids, beards, and behinds to mustaches, mouths, and monsters, Draw 500 Faces and Features is perfect for illustrators, cartoonists, doodlers, and anyone who loves to sketch. This is not a step-by-step technique book--rather, the doodles in this volume are simplified, modernized and reduced to the most basic elements, offering simple abstract shapes and forms that meld to create fun patterns and designs. This all-in-one pocket-sized sketchbook lets you draw right on the pages making it easy to keep all of your most inspired creations at hand.

Author description

CARA BEAN is a cartoonist and art teacher from Concord, Massachusetts. She graduated with a master's degree in painting and drawing from the University of Washington in Seattle. When she is not teaching, she makes comic books that relate to her life's experiences and fills sketchbooks with strange doodles. Cara likes: dogs, apes, tea, green hoodies, soup with crusty bread, people who walk alone and smile to themselves, hikes, mangos, befriending shy people, cats, libraries, thrift stores, Guadalajara, dancing with babies, crunchy leaves, owls, and nachos. Her students gather on Tuesdays after school for Illustration Club, which has become a place to draw and share ideas. Cara lives in a small cottage near Walden Pond with three wild dogs named Howie, Jackie, and Jon. Learn more about Cara Bean at: badgigi.com, beandoodling.blogspot.com