Drawing Using Grids: Portraits with Character by Giovanni Civardi

Using a simple four-stage process, Giovanni Civardi shows how to build a portrait, from the basic shape right through to beautifully rendered finished faces.   From world-renowned artist Giovanni Civardi, this innovative grid-based guide to capturing character in your portraits makes the drawing process simple and approachable. Using a simple four-stage process, this book shows how even Civardi's impressive results can be built up easily, from the basic shape right through to beautifully rendered finished faces. This easy-to-follow guide will suit beginners as well as more expert artists.   GIOVANNI CIVARDI was born in Milan in 1947. While training to become a sculptor, portrait artist and illustrator at the Free Life-Study School of the Accademia di Brera, he also studied medicine and surgery. For over a decade, he worked as an illustrator, producing commissions for newspapers, magazines and book covers. During frequent trips to France and Denmark, Civardi put on one-man exhibitions o