How to Rule at Drawing: 50 Tips and Tricks for Sketching and Doodling

by Chronicle Books

How to Rule at Drawing features 50 bite-size tips and tricks to help you improve your art skills. This easy-to-follow, irresistibly illustrated book will get you in the habit of capturing not just what you see, but also what you feel.

Whether you're a beginner just learning the basics or an expert looking to hone your skills, this handbook is the perfect easy-breezy volume for anyone who wants to up their art-making game. The simple and actionable takeaways will help readers take their sketching skills to new heights.

• Filled with irresistible illustrations from artist Rachel Harrell
• Accessible to beginners but still useful for the advanced artist
• Easy-to-follow instructional content

In How to Rule at Drawing, budding artists will discover new ways to warm up, master new tools and techniques, and make good art.

Part of the How to Rule series, a collection of tiny how-to books you can take anywhere to improve your creative skills.

• A perfect gift for aspiring and hobbyist artists, art students, burgeoning creatives, sketchers, doodlers, and mark-makers of all sorts
• Makes drawing easy, approachable, and super fun
• Great for readers and artists who enjoyed How to Draw What You See by Ruby De Reyna, Drawing for the Absolute Beginner: A Clear & Easy Guide to Successful Drawing by Mark Willenbrink, and Draw the Draw 50 Way by Lee J. Ames

Genres: Art, Creative, Drawing

104 pages, Hardcover

Published April 7, 2020

Reviews

[Jeffrey · Rating 4 out of 5]

Got it as part of humble bundle so it was very cheap. Finished reading it in 15 minutes. I gave it 4 stars cause it was such an easy read and some of the tips seem cool. Overall though, I do not recommend this book for in-depth drawing knowledge. You probably won't rule at drawing after reading this.

[Bookfish 🐟 · Rating 4 out of 5]

As a way to get some ideas to motivate yourself to draw more or make something new? Great!

But as a way to ‘rule at drawing’ as advertised? Not so great!

Drawing is much more complex but I think this can be a good starting point/ way to find drawing ideas

[Jeanne · Rating 4 out of 5]

Short and sweet. Literally a list of tips.

[Oscar Mares · Rating 3 out of 5]

50 tips muy condensados en un catálogo de catalizadores e ideas, algunas nuevas para mí, para motivarte a dibujar. Creo que para un docente de arte podría ser hasta un arsenal de tareas que se podrían hacer en clase como forma de exploración creativa. Sencillo, compacto y rápido de leer, esto lo hace excelente como un recurso al que puedes recurrir para cuando tengas ganas de dibujar algo pero no sabes qué dibujar.

[Tara Blais Davison · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5/5 Presented in a creative format. Many great rules and or suggestions for keeping a sketchbook or just for drawing. This book seems ideal for ensuring the experienced as well as the budding artist keep up the habit of drawing regularly so as to develop his or her hand-eye coordination, the practice of interpreting people and places that surround them. It also lists a number of excellent suggestions for year long exercises.

[Anders · Rating 3 out of 5]

This short little book doesn't teach you anything about drawing and sketching techniques. As advertised, it's full of ideas aimed at someone who wants to get into drawing.
I read it, downloaded a drawing app to my iPad, drew the ugliest dolphin ever and enjoyed it a lot. Exactly as advertised.

[Katrina · Rating 4 out of 5]

Cute little book, some simple but thought provoking tips or ideas. Will you ‘rule’ at drawing afterwards, no, but some good prompts. I would recommend a library loan rather than buying as it will take all of 15 minutes to read and finish 😊

[Vasudev · Rating 4 out of 5]

A short book every one with a pencil and paper should have!

[lauren · Rating 2 out of 5]

it's very cute but the tips and tricks are lacking.

[Ro · Rating 3 out of 5]

A little book of encouragement. Fifty nudges to help break down barriers between wanting to draw and actually doing it.

[Anna · Rating 2 out of 5]

That's... it? Just 50 single-sentence drawing prompts, like drawing with your non-dominant hand?

[Julia · Rating 3 out of 5]

Bem básico, mas serviu pro propósito que eu buscava: me incentivar a voltar a desenhar.

[Courtney · Rating 3 out of 5]

A few helpful reminders that I jotted down in my journal, but nothing remarkable or novel.