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How to Draw, sketch and draw anything, anywhere

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Este completo curso de dibujo, indicado tanto para principiantes como para artistas con experiencia, ha sido diseñado para ayudarte a integrar el dibujo en tu forma de vida. - Lecciones de eficacia comprobada que incluyen desde ejercicios de cinco minutos hasta sesiones especializadas de más de una hora. - Abarca cualquier sujeto y situación, desde naturalezas muertas a paisajes urbanos. - Planteada de un modo accesible, la teoría del dibujo vincula los conceptos técnicos con la práctica de campo. Sean cuales sean tus objetivos, el experto profesor de arte Jake Spicer te proporcionará la inspiración y el estímulo para dibujar más y seguir mejorando. Jake Spicer es artista y profesor de dibujo y reside en Brighton, Inglaterra. Es jefe de estudios en la escuela de dibujo independiente Draw, codirector de The Drawing Circus y organiza con frecuencia cursos de dibujo de retrato y figuras para el Camden Arts Centre y la National Portrait Gallery.

347 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 30, 2022

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Jake Spicer is a Brighton-based artist, drawing tutor and author of several popular instructional drawing books.

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1,846 reviews129 followers
June 26, 2022
I appreciate that this book focuses on process rather than product. It's about using drawing as a learning process--discovering techniques and how to use materials through actual practice. It contains many drawing activity ideas, and each activity focuses you on a certain technique or material.

For beginners, keep in mind that you cannot learn to draw by reading a book. You can only learn to draw by drawing. That's what this book promotes. If you are looking for a book with step by step instructions on how to draw things, this is not be book you are looking for.
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58 reviews
October 3, 2020
Have I gotten so hopeless that I had to resort to guide books? Yes I have lol.

It wasn't overall the best one I've read really. I think I'd rather prefer a step by step instructions of sorts? Either way, it was at least...slightly helpful with the tips.

3/5
20 reviews1 follower
January 4, 2020
Doesn’t tell you how to draw but gives u tips that make sense so 3 stars cuz of the misleading title I thought I was gonna become Vincent Van Gogh from this book but I now just know a lot about paper and pens
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11 reviews1 follower
June 18, 2020
Simple and effective.

This book is the perfect starting point to start to draw.
The book is direct with simple but effective explanations of what to do when drawing. At the end the author recommends other books from other authors, which are great to continue the learning journey.
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2 reviews
October 25, 2023
Not a step by step instruction manual on how to sketch but rather a helpful guide full of tips, lessons and exercises on drawing and sketching.
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3 reviews
May 11, 2022
As someone who likes drawing and sketching and has some knowledge of drawing, I found this book much more interesting and quite beneficial. It's combined by lots of small and easy practices with theories in the back part you can jump to whenever needed. It also encourages you to explore different tools and media as well as your own style.

I have always wanted to pick my pencil up but felt reluctant to do so with excuses of "life is too busy" (i.e. social media is more attractive than everything else). This book finally convinced me to go back to drawing. Thank you Jake.
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79 reviews1 follower
March 26, 2022
Creo que da tips muy buenos que sin duda voy a usar. llevo dibujando desde hace muchos años ya, pero es verdad que me topé con cosas nuevas que planeo seguir aplicando. Si alguien está empezando recién a dibujar, entonces creo que esté es su libro.
1 review
October 16, 2021
Great book...truly!

This is the best book on drawing in my collecting. It's the one book I keep coming back to. I love it.
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October 24, 2024
Fantastic reminders and suggestions

I used to carry a sketch book when traveling to help me see.better what I'm looking.at; a building, a scene at a unique location. I.often I over did details. Its clear now from Spider's wonderful book that I didn't know how to do background or outline drawing lines. The book is fantastic in showing how to.outline the scene and be free to fill in details at a later time. What I'd call Sparking the memory and recall.

The one item that needs to be considered is where , when doing a sketch is a good place to jot down notes on.what I'm recalling or trying to do. A separate note book maybe?

So off to find my drawing pencils,.maybe old sketches, which were put away 10 years ago after moving into a retirement community!!

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216 reviews4 followers
January 13, 2023
No es un método como tal, pero combina un poco de teoría con muchas propuestas de ejercicios que se pueden hacer dependiendo del sitio, del tiempo que tengas y de los materiales. Creo que este es el punto fuerte del libro: mostrarte cómo puedes dibujar y practicar tus habilidades en cualquier circunstancia. Al final del libro hay propuestas de plan de estudio y bibliografía recomendada para seguir por tu cuenta. Creo que es un buen libro para alguien que quiere mejorar su técnica de dibujo pero no sabe muy bien que dirección tomar.
161 reviews1 follower
October 11, 2022
Learned A lot From This Book

This is a great book to learn how to draw from. The most important lesson that I learned from reading this book is; draw in your outline of what you want to draw first. After your outline is finished you can fill in the details. Don't make drawing anything harder then it really is.
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April 28, 2020
It's okay, but it gets a bit bogged down with speech

I don't think it's the best book out there for helping novice sketching, because it's weighed down with instructions and not enough image and detail of form !
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23 reviews1 follower
March 19, 2024
No es un libro que enseñe a dibujar pasó a paso es más bien como dice el autor un trampolín que te ayuda a hacer el dibujo parte de tu vida diaria, me gustaron los consejos que da y los ejercicios que propone.
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79 reviews
July 12, 2024
Spicer's books take a different approach to teaching, this isn't an instruction manual with precise steps on how to draw in a particular way exactly, but rather, it provides exercises - supplemented with a little theory - to show how to use various drawing skills.
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227 reviews
May 28, 2025
This is the kind of drawing book I’ve been looking for - warm up exercises to get back into the swing of things and then small projects / prompts to inspire with nods to theory along the way. I like the structure of the book and I look forward to starting !
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March 1, 2021
Great book

This is a great book about shading and sketching. It is helpful in sketching withdrawing when out and about. Enjoy
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50 reviews
July 2, 2025
Se me da mejor que con colores, los colores son un mundo
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January 25, 2021
This book was great as it provided brilliant drawing exercises and discussed how to make time to draw and what to do if you don’t have any drawing supplies.
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440 reviews30 followers
December 13, 2022
enjoyable, easy to follow, full of a actually helpful exercises
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