Learn How to Draw - Manual Drawing - for the Absolute Beginner

by John Davidson, Adrian Sanqui (Illustrator)

If you are an artist in search of further knowledge about drawing to enhance your skills, then this is not the book for you. This book is for the individuals who wants to be an artist but know nothing about drawing.

I know how it feels when you want to illustrate an idea but you just don’t know how to start. And when you finally grabbed the confidence to mark that paper but then it turned out really terrible and you didn't want to show it to anyone.



Table of contents

INTRODUCTION

GETTING STARTED

• How to grip a pencil properly

• Warming up



SKETCHING

• Starting with sticks and shapes



DETAILING

• Design

• Texture



SHADING

• Casting shadows

• Hatching

• Cross-hatching

• Scumbling

• Stippling

• Smudging and layering

Smudging

Layering



This instructional manual is for making the ‘two circles’ cat of yours into

something more pleasing and distinguishable, for enhancing that sheep which looks like a cloud with a face, for turning your stick figures into cartoons, and more.

Learn the very basics of drawing easily by following this step-by-step tutorial and realize that drawing is something that is fun to do, and not something that becomes a cause of frustration.



To give you a hint of what this book is all about, look at this short list of tasks that you will learn to properly initiate after reading and following the tutorial.

Tasks:

* Start with a loose sketch.

You need to define the first look of your drawing by sketching it first so it could serve as a pattern for your permanent outlines (defined outlines). If the lay-out of your primary sketch is too far-off from the final piece that you are after, the latter parts are going to be difficult.

* Define permanent outlines.

Trace your sketch to clearly define the contour shape (primary shape) of your drawing, and clean it up by erasing the sketch markings.

* Show/illustrate some texture. Texture contour provides a better portrayal of the shape’s dimension values. The details such as scales, fur or any print and texture should curve and flow with the contour shape of your subject and adjust with it accordingly.

* Draw the necessary details. Use a variety of line thickness and line weight (given pressure on the pencil) to show the right balance to the whole drawing, use thick lines for the parts that should visually dominate the drawing, and less visible and thin lines for the secondary details and parts that merely describe the object/subject’s form.

98 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 23, 2014

About the author

Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name.

John Davidson has been a lifelong educator. He is an avid outdoorsman and Internet entrepreneur running online businesses since 2001. He has more than 200 websites and has written or published more than 1000 books. His books include:

• Health Learning series
• Amazing Animal Books for Young Readers series
• Learn to Draw series
• Learn to Airbrush series
• Learn to Paint with Pastels series
• How to Build series
• Entrepreneur Book series

Reviews

[Patricia Houfe · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great tutelage

This is the kind of book I need aT the moment. It clear and explicit and I really have learned a lot. The only problem is the length of the book. I would rather pay a little extra and receive more information.

[zanovia Hische · Rating 2 out of 5]

I thought it would explained more about the tools and how they worked and th drawing

Look like it should of shown more.
He made it look to easy but hard at the same time. I was kinds disappointed

[Colette Carmona · Rating 4 out of 5]

very helpful

[Kaye Dewar · Rating 1 out of 5]

Offensive drawings

Found the information good in general. But at the end there were some very distasteful drawings i would not allow a child to see this book