Artist's Drawing Techniques: Discover How to Draw Landscapes, People, Still Lifes and More, in Pencil, Charcoal, Pen and Pastel

by D.K. Publishing

Kickstart your creativity and create a masterpiece with step-by-step workshops and advice from professional artists.

Whether you want to try your hand at drawing for the first time or fine-tune your artistic skills, Artist's Drawing Techniques is for you. Learn how to work with charcoal, pen, and pastels and discover everything you need to know about tone, colour, texture, line-work, and composition with detailed advice for beginner, intermediate, and advanced artists.

Fully illustrated, step-by-step workshops from professional artists guide you through more than 80 drawing techniques including cross-hatching, stippling, blending, and masking. All techniques are accompanied by inspiring exercises and projects to try at home to help you develop your skills, discover your own style, and grow as an artist.

Master every aspect of drawing with this essential guide, from choosing a subject to mounting your first piece. Whatever your level of expertise, you can learn to draw with confidence - and perhaps create a masterpiece (or two) along the way.

Genres: Art, Nonfiction

303 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 3, 2023

About the author

Dorling Kindersley (DK) is a British multinational publishing company specializing in illustrated reference books for adults and children in 62 languages. It is part of Penguin Random House, a consumer publishing company jointly owned by Bertelsmann SE & Co. KGaA and Pearson PLC. Bertelsmann owns 53% of the company and Pearson owns 47%.

Established in 1974, DK publishes a range of titles in genres including travel (including Eyewitness Travel Guides), arts and crafts, business, history, cooking, gaming, gardening, health and fitness, natural history, parenting, science and reference. They also publish books for children, toddlers and babies, covering such topics as history, the human body, animals and activities, as well as licensed properties such as LEGO, Disney and DeLiSo, licensor of the toy Sophie la Girafe. DK has offices in New York, London, Munich, New Delhi, Toronto and Melbourne.

Source: Wikipedia.

Reviews

[Audrey Sauble · Rating 4 out of 5]

A thorough overview of various medium including ink, pencil, charcoal, watercolor, pastels and others. Each medium is broken out into three skill levels with step-by-step projects using different techniques. I didn’t make it all the way through, but found the projects helpful for both refreshing familiar techniques and trying out new tools.

[PottWab Regional Library]

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