Essential Drawing Skills
Essential Drawing Skills is a book for those who wish to draw accurately, whether to make realistic finished drawings or to create a solid foundation for painting. It's been written to quickly help you develop your artistic ability by teaching you the essential skills that you will use time and again in all your work.
SIZE A4
LAMINATED SOFTBACK
200 PAGES
OVER 300 ILLUSTRATIONS
Good, accurate drawing provides the foundation for all drawing and painting if our finished picture is to be a good likeness of our subject matter. No matter how good our knowledge of colour is - or how good we are at creating tone in a pencil drawing - the structure of our picture will quickly suffer if we don’t start with accurate drawing.
Please see the excellent press reviews of the book above which appeared in The Artist, Leisure Painter and Artists and Illustrators magazines’.
Learning how to Draw Accurately
It's not difficult to learn how to draw
These drawing skills aren't difficult to learn and can be used in all future painting and drawing, whether working in oil, water-colour, acrylic, pastel or pencil. Essential Drawing Skills will teach you all you need to know and with clear easy to follow instructions, over 300 illustrations and practical examples, it really is not difficult.
Drawing skills you will use time and again
Although you are guided through these exercises in an easy, step by step format, they are not simply showing you how to copy a drawing - you will be learning skills along the way that you will use time and time again. They will help reinforce your learning and quickly become second nature to you.
Learn Drawing See immediate results in your work
If you invest in Essential Drawing Skills and spend a little time reading and carrying out the exercises it will greatly improve your drawing and give you confidence to tackle more challenging subject matter. With over 300 illustrations and clear explanations and instructions, you will soon realise that perspective isn't difficult to learn after all and this alone will bring immediate, gratifying results in your work. This will inspire you to tackle more challenging subject matter - or perhaps re-visit an earlier drawing or painting that was giving you problems - and this will build your confidence in your work.
Essential Drawing Skills covers
- Materials
- Perspective (in an easy to understand way!)
- Line and tone
- Light and shade
- Composition
- Texture
- Negative space
- Working from photographs
- Practical examples and exercises
And there's a large section of hints and tips which will further help you improve - and enjoy - your drawing and painting!
