Drawing the Human Head

The book which I want for making the portrait of someone that process, got in this book. The method is observation method. All thing is given, the light and shade portion is given.I suggest that buy this book if you want to grow up in making portrait. This is my first book of Burne Hogarth and I'll collect all the Burne Hogarth's book

This book doesnt have decoding of female heads, heads of a child etc.

A MUST BUY BOOK

This book does away with glossy paper and colour illustrations, and deals solely with the information that you need to be able to draw a human head. The information is straight-forward and focusses only on what you need to know. The technique itself is one that I prefer to use and is great for people who are more practically and academically-minded as I am or who weren't necessarily "born to draw" or who are picking art up later on in life.I ordered this along with "The Art of Drawing & Painting Portraits: Create realistic heads, faces & features in pencil, pastel, watercolor, oil & acrylic" and the two books compliment each other perfectly.

When in college, I received excerpts from this book for my portraiture class and picked this book up a couple of years later to get back into the swing of drawing again. It is a fantastic book. Burne Hogarth is a master of the human form and it really shows in every one of his drawings.Please take into account that I would not reccommend this book for a beginner. Hogarth's descriptions can be wordy and very complicated; if you are a beginner and would like to try your hand at portraiture I would not pick up this book to start. However, I found it very useful when preparing my portfolio to apply for my Animation diploma as it allows drawing of the head from all angles, adding a 3D structure in which to form the head and face around.Hogarth continuously states in his book that it will not make you a master but give you a basic understanding of the fundamentals of how the face works and it really works. The simple structures he uses can be difficult to get used to but I honestly can't see myself drawing the human head any other way now. His format is much easier and much more solid to follow.

Great book, teaches you a lot of porportions and the illustration is spectacular!Will probably buy all the other books od this saga!

Any book of Burne Hogarth is worth owning. Full of precisely drawn information.

Very inspiring.