Translated to Arabic, How to Draw Portraits: A Step-by-Step Guide for Beginners with 10 Projects, by Susie Hodge. Everything you need to know to achieve a realistic portrait is here, including how to make flat drawings look three-dimensional, comfortably pose subjects, and work with structure, perspective and proportion. Practice blending, hatching, cross-hatching, and stippling. Try working from photographs and with live models.