Collects more than a decade's worth of portraits as published in top alternative magazines or displayed in popular North American galleries, in a volume that features such subjects as Duke Ellington, Frank Sinatra, and Patti Page. Original.

Product Description: Here are 47 masterpieces of the art of portrait drawing, selected from the work of an elite group of artists who represent the great schools and traditions of Italy and northern Europe from the 15th to the 19th centuries. Among the artists are Andrea Mantegna, Filippino Lippi, Raphael, Dürer, Andrea del Sarto, Titian, Pontormo, Lucas van Leyden, Holbein, Rubens, Hals, Bernini, Van Dyck, Rembrandt, Hyacinthe Rigaud, Watteau, and Ingres...read more

Easy nine-step directions show young artists how to use simple geometric lines and shapes to make sketches of fifty famous sports, entertainment, political, and historical figures

Presents a step-by-step course in the art of portraiture, identifying necessary materials, common problems, and alternate techniques, and provides demonstrations of individual features and full portraits

Self-portraits are arranged chronologically by the age of the artist when the drawing was made, and accompanied by writings indicating the artist's thoughts at that time