This guide encourages you to forget about creating a likeness, and instead, to concentrate on seeing and drawing the big shapes of dark and light. The likenesses will follow. In a clear, step-by-step format, with the help of nine start-to-finish portrait demonstrations, you will learn:<ul><li>Easy, basic pencil and charcoal techniques<li>How to draw each feature of the face<li>How to communicate various facial expressions<li>Techniques for working from live models<li>How to draw a variety of people, different poses and lighting conditions</ul>