Teach Yourself VISUALLY Drawing

by Dean Fisher, Josephine Robinson

There's no reason to be intimidated by art; creating a compelling drawing can be nothing more than breaking down the process into a few simple stages. This book shows you how to consider the shape of an object, render light and shadow, and make your drawings more realistic by understanding perspective. With plentiful examples, demonstrations of various techniques, and inspiring galleries of master drawings, Teach Yourself VISUALLY Drawing will bring out your inner artist. You progress from basic shapes and still lifes to portraits, the human form, and landscapes. You'll be amazed at what you can create with just a pencil, paper, and a little instruction. Concise teo-page lessons show you all the steps to a skill and are ideal for quick review


Each topic is defined and described Detailed illustrations and photos demonstrate drawing techniques and provide inspiration Explanations accompany each illustration or photo Helpful hints provide additional guidance

Genres: Art, Nonfiction

289 pages, Paperback

First published November 12, 2007

Reviews

[Basma shalaby · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book not recommended for beginners at all , It will be so difficult in my opinion
It is a very brilliant book
I liked chapter 5 "Discover the pattern of light and shadow" ,chapter 11 "The portrait" and chapter 12 "Drawing the human figure" a lot :)
Dean & Josephine I really appreciate your great efforts
keep it up ✌

[Aníbal M. · Rating 4 out of 5]

Even though this book is aimed for beginners, it's a really good book for advanced artists. It teaches fundamentals of composition, perspective and it helps a lot to improve the ways you can simplify an image to extract geometric shapes and shadows/highlights. I really enjoyed it and learned from it.

[Manuel Cordova · Rating 5 out of 5]

A must read book.

[Eric · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is an excellent book for anyone who wished to learn to draw. In fact, the only real gripe I have with it is that very little time was devoted to the mechanics of making marks on the paper. Only vague description is used to describe the techniques of using charcoal, pencils, and the like.

However, the book does spend a great deal of time on how to approach one's subject. Composition, tone, proportion, perspective, line-drawing, etc, are all covered.

[Brenda · Rating 5 out of 5]

One of the best books on drawing I have ever seen.