How to Draw Absolutely Anything Activity Book

by ILYA

There's no great secret to drawing. Anybody can draw. If you can write your name, you have enough touch to learn to draw. Let ILYA inspire you to pick up your pencil and create a magical masterpiece. His positive approach secures quick, accurate results and ever-growing confidence.

This is a creative, encouraging book that takes all the mystery out of the art and practice of drawing. It shows readers from age 8 to 80 how drawing works, giving invaluable yet simple hints, tips and personal as well as professional pointers across a wide range of drawing styles, tools and techniques.

Simple lessons are delivered via step-by-step practical exercises, giving a comprehensive, stylish, inclusive and inside perspective on the not-so-mysterious art of drawing. By the last page, readers will come away willing and able to draw absolutely anything.

Anything and everything is possible, from realistic sketches through to taking a line for a walk - or letting a line take you for a walk. Learn for yourself or rediscover the confidence-building joys of free creative expression - plus the handy ability to get your thoughts, feelings and ideas down quickly and easily in a form that anyone, anywhere can appreciate and understand.

'Brilliant and inspirational, for all ages' - Jane B.

336 pages, Kindle Edition

First published March 1, 2018

About the author

Ed Hillyer, better known as ILYA, is a British comics writer/artist. His work has appeared in publications from all the major US and UK comics companies, from Fleetway Editions' Crisis, Dark Horse's Manga Mania, Deadline magazine to work for DC Comics' Vertigo imprint.

Reviews

[5t4n5 Dot Com · Rating 4 out of 5]

Not anything like i was expecting.

I bought this because i've just gotten back into drawing after nearly 30 years of not doing any and i thought it might help a little.   I was expecting a book about how to draw, literally, but this isn't really about that.

This book is more about working on your expectations and why you draw in the first place.   It's more about drawing as just something you should do and what it should mean when it becomes as normal to living as eating and drinking.   What's the point in drawing if you don't know why you're drawing?

What are you drawing for?   What do you really want to draw and why?

These are a few questions that the book made think about without directly asking them.

So don't expect a book that tells you how to hold your pencil properly or what lead you should use on what paper, expect a book about your expectations and then go and draw something, anything, it doesn't matter, just draw.

To sum this book up nicely would be this quote from the last few pages:

DON’T SAY "I can’t draw" especially when what you mean is, "I don’t draw." DON’T SAY that either.

[Hasselhh · Rating 3 out of 5]

The book is half helpful, half useless / personal anecdotes, so in a sense better than expected.