Learn how to use the grid technique to draw accurate sketches of people from photographs and more, with the help of master artist Giovanni Civardi.

Create accurate, characterful portraits from your favourite photographs using the simple grid method.

In this highly visual guide, best-selling master artist Giovanni Civardi shows you how to use the traditional grid technique to draw people of all ages and in a variety of poses.

By simply laying a grid over a photograph or drawing, you can transfer the image to paper one square at a time. Once the transfer is complete, Civardi will show you how to finish off your drawing for a professional portrait.

Beginning with a summary of the human form and basic drawing techniques, over 90 step-by-step exercises follow, ranging from simple portraits of adults and children to characterful faces and people in motion.

Uses material from Drawing Using Grids: Portraits with Character and Drawing Using Grids: Portraits of Babies & Children.