Complete Drawing Course: Amazon.ca: The Diagram Group: Books

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Learn to draw without ever going to art school—all you need is a complete at-home course. Work through a project and move on to the next one—the drawings you complete will enable you to learn the fundamentals by doing them. See with all your senses. Translate your vision into a drawing, then advance from simple still-lifes to landscapes, human figures, and more. What catches your eye? You’re able to draw it! “Highly recommended.”—Library Journal.

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This progressive course enables even the complete novice to tap into the magic of drawing, to use art to discover the world, and to create significant personal responses to reality and ideas. 768 illustrations.

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3.0 out of 5 stars the Title is misleading..., April 29 2004

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Bruce Bain "Romans 9:33/Remember Jackie Robinson" (Englewood, CO United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Complete Drawing Course (Paperback)

"complete drawing course" by some entity calling itself "The Diagram Group" fails to be a "complete drawing course". The title suggests something encyclopedic, which this is not, at only 255 short pages (the book is 8 1/2" tall x 11 1/2" wide). As other reviewers observe, the book lessons prescribe a series of drawing tasks and assignments, which gives it something of a "machine-like" quality of instruction, and the printing is all in high-contrast black on white which gives the book a cold feel. Also, I'm a bit uncomfortable with "how-to" drawing books which suggest, as first projects, drawing obsure and apparently irrelevant inanimate objects (3- hole paper punches from some office desk, coffee pots, scissors, door keys, paper chinese food cartons, household steam irons etc., etc.,...) as though the person moved to draw such mundane objects was psychologically irrelevant.
The last 50 pages or so cover portraiture, though these drawing lessons don't look like much fun; however, there are some interesting illustrations of facial expressions, though not worthy of the term, "complete", and moreso, because this self-termed "complete" drawing course has nothing at all on Human Figure drawing, not a single page or illustration of human figure, nude or clothed, or the canon of proportion, I do not see how it can suggest itself as "complete". Furthermore, no illustration in this "complete" drawing course shows anything "moving". It's portraits are still life. It's trees and landscapes are still lifes. Regarding animation, would you expect a "complete" drawing course to include some animals? Well, don't look in this text for them, cause they ain't! So long story made short, it is NOT a "complete" drawing course, though it's got the usual instruction in landscape, persepective, lighting & shading, artists materials, etc.
There is perhaps a singular saving grace in this text, and that is if it is purchased for the sheer volume and variety of its graphics. For example, on 2 facing pages, it shows 9 different ways of illustrating a Tree, and 5 different ways of illustrating tree bark/trunks. In fact, the pages on drawing plants and branches may be the book's saving grace. I'm happy to have it in my home library as a reference text, since it isn't too expensive. (but the graphics just might be worth $11 bucks).

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1.0 out of 5 stars not good if reading by yourself, Jun 27 2002

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joe - See all my reviews

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I agree with other reviewers that this book looks like a course material. For all the tasks descibed, which is basically what this book is, there is little explanation about how to do it, how to do it better, or what is the reason to do it. One thing is for sure: the more you put in, the better you draw, but this book doesn't help much if you read it by itself and by yourself. I do suspect it is designed for some course led by instructor.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Lots of exercises but little guidance, May 11 2001

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Hua Ying Ling (Raleigh, NC USA) - See all my reviews

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This book contains lots of great exercises but has very few indicators about how well you are doing in the exercises.

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