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Drawing can enrich your life in extraordinary and unexpected ways. Drawing your everyday experiences can change how you and others see the world, while drawing from your imagination can give rise to fantastic new worlds. And, despite what you may believe, it's something just about anyone can learn to do.
Drawing For Dummies offers you a fun, easy way to learn the drawing basics. Holding fast to the simple philosophy that only you can teach yourself to draw, it gives you the tools you need to explore the basics and move on to more advanced techniques. This revised edition of one of the most successful For Dummies guides includes
- Additional step-by-step instructions for drawing people, animals, still life, and more
- Coverage of effects, composition, and perspective
- How-to art projects that show you how to create your drawings from simple geometric shapes to finished artwork
It's never too late to unleash the artist within. Let Drawing For Dummies, 2nd edition put you on the road to discovery and self-expression through drawing.
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Holding fast to the simple philosophy that only you can teach yourself to draw, Drawing For Dummies gives you the tools you need to explore the basics and move on to more advanced techniques. It's never too late to unleash the artist within . . . so grab a pad and pencil and let this friendly, hands-on guide put you on the road to self-expression.
Drawing 101 — find out everything you need to know to start drawing, from the supplies you'll need to ideas for findinginspiration
Sharpen your pencil (and your skills) — learn to create dimension on a flat piece of paper, add shading to render light and shadow, add depth, and much more
Let's get digital — discover the world of digital drawing and get guidance on the tools and software used to create sketches and layers with your personal computer
Bring your drawing to life — start experimenting with subject matter to draw still lifes, nature, people, and animals
Open the book and find:
The supplies and techniques you need to create different types of drawings
Ideas and strategies for tackling drawing projects
Free downloadable digitaldrawing tools
How to balance shapes
Tips for creating line drawings
Helpful instruction for creating 3D drawings
Textures and patterns that can enhance your drawing
How to add perspective
Learn to:
Draw animals, people, still life, and more
Master shading, blending, composition,and perspective
Create your drawings from simplegeometric shapes to finished artwork
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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
Could stand a lot of improvement,
By A Customer
This review is from: Drawing For Dummies (Paperback)
I've used a number of For Dummies books and have been very impressed, but this one is a bit of a let-down. I'm returning to drawing after years away and was hoping this would provide a bit of a refresher course, but so far I've only found it moderately useful.The book has a number of strengths, including a positive attitude that's important for beginners to latch on to in order to avoid discouragement. The author is also great technician with the pencil, particularly where realistic portraits are concerned. Not everyone will warm to her fairly cold, analytical, draftsman-like style, though. Despite those strengths, there are too many flaws in this book to make it a first recommendation: * There's not enough info on materials and tools. * The drawing reproductions are mostly way too small to learn from. They're fine for inspiration (or intimidation!) but won't much help you emulate the author's technique. * The main focus is on the author's speciality of portraiture. You'll find some really interesting info there, but it would have been nice to see equal attention paid to landscapes, animals, still lifes, comic book and cartoon art, etc. As it is, they're totally ignored or covered so briefly as to be of little use. * Instructions are vague. The author does some great texture and shading work with cross-hatching but never adequately describes _specifically_ how to do it for the different types of exercises and drawings. Why not tell us what pencil you're using when, why you choose certain stroke directions and lengths, etc.? * The author totally ignores blending in favor of cross-hatching for shading. You can do great work with either technique, so why pretend one widely used method doesn't exist? Blending is particularly important for super-realistic renderings and portraits. Almost without exception, the very best pencil portraits I've seen have been created with blending. Don't get me wrong: this isn't a bad book, just not all it could be. Hopefully a second edition will get it all right.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
An Art Course in one book,
By A Customer
This review is from: Drawing For Dummies (Paperback)
This is the best book on drawing I have ever seen. I was searching for an art book to help with some aspects of drawing I was having trouble with. This book went far beyond that. It is like an art course in one book. There are many other good art books out there which do the same thing, but the book is laid out in the familiar Dummies style, which is easy to read, and great to use as a reference book. The book includes all facets of drawing: line drawing, light and shadows, patterns and textures, perspective, elements of composition, drawing still lifes, plants, animals, landscapes, people (including babies), cartooning, as well as information about setting up your own studio, developing your own drawing style, crossing over from drawing to painting, as well as other information helpful to artists. The author's style is very entertaining, and she encourages anyone to try drawing. There are tons of pictures throughout the whole book, as well as about thirty projects to try. Whether this is your first attempt at drawing, or an experienced artist, this book is an excellent choice for any artist.
5.0 out of 5 stars
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This review is from: Drawing For Dummies (Paperback)
What an excellent book ! Purchased two books; one for a gift and one for myself after reviewing how well the book is organized and written.The author, Brenda Hoddinott, has taken such effort to develop a truly wonderful reference book. She opens the door to creativity and makes it seem so achievable. Must have been an excellent educator as she empowers the reader to grab the reins and draw. Every chapter leads the reader through an interesting exercise from the basics to the illusion of three dimension.
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