Learn to Paint People Quickly (Learn Quickly) Hardcover – March 7, 2017 by Hazel Soan ( Batsford)

This is a very helpful little book for those who like to include figures in quick sketches, drawings, or paintings. It is not a beginner's how-to book with step by step instructions, but more of a compact digest of the things you need to be aware of when drawing or painting people. In that respect it is excellent and I it is one of the better art books I own. The discussions of perspective and posture are of great value because this is where so may go astray, i.e., rigid and unnatural figures. I did knock off one star though, because of the page on facial proportions (p 24). The shadow notes are good, but her relating the eyes and nose positions to the top and bottom of the ear is ill founded. The ear is always located in relation to the facial features and never vice versa. When the head is tilted even slightly forward or backward the ear will appear higher or lower in relation to the nose and eyes and is never used to position those facial features. Perhaps she did not intend it to read that way, and it is only a minor point that anyone with basic facial drawing experience will disregard.