Paint People In Acrylic by Lee Hammond

This fantastic book combines the easy-to-use medium of acrylic paints with beginner-friendly instruction designed to help you achieve lifelike paintings. With Lee Hammond's simple step-by-step approach, you'll learn how to stat with a basic foundation of color, then add layer after layer, gradually building the image.

50 step-by-step demonstrations teach you basic techniques and how to paint individual facial features. Ten start-to-finish portrait demos bring it all together, ultimately teaching you how to accurately portray subjects of every age, complexion and ethnicity.

Topics include:

• Painting notoriously tricky elements, such as eyes, ears, teeth, hair and clothing
• Capturing the look of age and the glow of youth
• Working from a reference photo
• Using the grid technique to simplify portraits and create an accurate preliminary sketch