The Complete Book of Drawing Techniques : A Complete Guide for the Artist

by Peter Stanyer

Complete Book of Drawing Techniques by Peter Stanyer. Paperback.

Genres: Art, Nonfiction, Drawing, Design, Ebooks

208 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2003

Reviews

[BananaTea · Rating 1 out of 5]

Imagine trying to learn perspective and anatomy from someone who barely has a grasp of either subject themselves, and you have this book. Seriously, I thought maybe it was a joke, or that it was illustrated by Picasso. Just wow. They present many of the basic artistic techniques, but fail to apply them successfully for like 90% of the book. Not sure how this got published.

[Lloyd Downey · Rating 4 out of 5]

Peter Stanyer has actually come up with a very detailed book on drawing techniques and the use of different materials. Actually, I've covered off most of this sort of thing with other books on drawing...though he does go into considerable details with materials such as charcoal. He mentioned the technique of "Tonking" (which I'd never heard of before). Essentially it's beating the charcoal sketch with a cloth to soften the image and then reworking it a bit to reinstate the tones as desired. I thought that this gave quite a good effect. He also mentions using a burnt cork as a drawing instrument....something that I'd never heard of.
Overall. quite a thorough text but not one that I'm going to keep.(Mainly because I'm short of space). Four stars from me.

[سُميَّة · Rating 5 out of 5]

Amazing & simple Book :)
213 pages full of guidelines to all the artists , contents three simple parts which talking about types of pencils and charcoal and ways to holding it while drawing , it can be instant guide to those who try to be more professional painters ..
happy to read it ! :)