This inspiring book makes drawing in a realistic style easier than you may think and more fun than you ever imagined! Authors Mark and Mary Willenbrink (Watercolor for the Absolute Beginner) cover it all—from choosing materials and the correct way to hold your pencil, to expert advice on the tricky stuff, like getting proportions and
This inspiring book makes drawing in a realistic style easier than you may think and more fun than you ever imagined!
Authors Mark and Mary Willenbrink (Watercolor for the Absolute Beginner) cover it all—from choosing materials and the correct way to hold your pencil, to expert advice on the tricky stuff, like getting proportions and perspective right, drawing reflections, and designing strong compositions. (It’s not as scary as it sounds…not with Mark and Mary as your guide!)
At the heart of this book, a series of fun, hands-on exercises help you practice and perfect your strokes—24 mini-demos lead up to 9 full step-by-step demos. Each exercise builds on the previous one as you develop your skills, build your confidence, and enjoy yourself along the way. The lessons you learn by drawing simple subjects such as coffee mugs, clouds and trees will help you take on progressively more challenging matter like animals, still lifes, landscapes and portraits…the kinds of subjects and scenes you’ve always dreamt of drawing.
This book is just the ticket for budding artists of any age. It’s never too early and never too late to discover the pure joy of drawing!
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The One to Get!! I discovered this unassuming volume after buying four other drawing books and looking through about fifty more. While finding a lot of good things in the other books, none of them had what I was looking for in a beginner’s guide – a solid step-by-step foundation course starting from square one. Too many drawing books, I learned, either turned into art displays – filled with beautifully rendered drawings and too little instruction, focused too much on certain aspects of drawing at the…
Quite Helpful But Not For The “Absolute Beginner” I like this book quite a lot. I got it as a review of basic drawing principles I learned in college, and for this it is really useful. It reviews much of what I learned in the first four art classes I had, explaining tools, going over basic skills like how to hold a pencil for different effects, creating value cards, and starting out with the basic shapes of an item and working towards the details. I’d forgotten many pointers my profs had shared that are repeated here, like how to use a…
Very Traditional Approach to Pencil Drawing This book is one of four instructional drawing books which I bought to try to get myself back into sketching and drawing, an activity which I enjoyed in my youth. Besides the “Absolute Beginner” book, I got the “Absolute and Utter Beginner”, “Drawing with Children” (Mona Brookes) plus one about drawing faces. As you can see, I decided to go “all the way back” and get a good foundation to the craft. I draw nearly every day now, doing up to seven sketches or studies. My fat little sketchbook…