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The how-to handbook that exactly explains and illustrates the step-by-step processes for drawing complete, succesful landscapes and seascapes and teaches the fundamentals of good composition as well as the separate picture elements. This guide combines the simplest kind of scenery sketching with the most complex renderings to give every artist, beginner or professional, essential scenery drawing techniques.
More than 900 diagrams, pictorial explanations, and pictures
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Jack Hamm is one of the best-selling authors of art instruction books. With nearly a million copies sold, his books have helped aspiring artists of every age and level of ability learn to draw and improve their technique.
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
The only book on drawing scenery you will ever need.,
This review is from: Drawing Scenery: Landscapes and Seascapes (Paperback)
This book is hands-down my favorite step-by-step tool on drawing scenery. It's clearly written, which makes its instructions very easy to follow and understand, and it's masterfully organized in six sections that clearly relate to one another, making it easy to go back to specific topics at any time. In its first section alone (Introduction to the Basics of Scenery Drawing) it includes very well explained drawing basics like composition, space division, picture elements, comprehension factors, materials and more. It also goes beyond most scenery drawing books in the market to include, beside the usual landscape and terrain composition techniques, other important concepts: Drawing Trees and Foliage, Drawing Rocks and Mountains, Drawing Clouds and Skies, Drawing Water (Oceans, Lakes, Rivers and Falls), and Drawing Buildings (in various shapes and sizes). Additional bonuses are the authors' constant tips on a wide variety of topics that go from shading and highlighting to artistic treatment and texturing of surfaces.This book is also fully illustrated with over 900 beautiful diagrams and pictures that work as invaluable examples, which accurately illustrate the instructions given by the author. Some people might be discouraged from purchasing this title due to it being completely illustrated in black & white, but trust me when I say that it doesn't need color images. It's so well written that you'll soon start seeing the illustrations in the colors your imagination and creativeness will give them. I used this book as one would use a textbook on a course, doing all the exercises and going back to all the lessons in each section after I had finished with it. In only two months my work has improved 100% and my drawings have won praise from friends and family. Buy this book if you are a professional trying to fine tune your craft and buy it if you are a beginner serious about drawing, both will discover the benefits of applying to your work all the essential scenery drawing techniques that it contains. --Reviewed by M. E. Volmar
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
He does it for me...,
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This review is from: Drawing Scenery: Landscapes and Seascapes (Paperback)
Are you fed up with the books that merely demonstrate how much better the author is at drawing than you are? All you can do is try (and fail) to copy their examples without really knowing the how and why of making marks and coming up with your own compositions?Jack Hamm tells you what marks to make, how to make them, where to make them, and why. And it turns out that it's easy to draw good pictures. Whodunnit in the end? Youdunnit!!! His landscapes book was the first I bought in the series. I was so impressed with it that I subsequently bought ALL his other books in a single batch. And I've been just as pleased with each of them.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Worth every penny and then some,
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This review is from: Drawing Scenery: Landscapes and Seascapes (Paperback)
I bought this for my teenage son who is very artistic but his strength is in figures and animal drawing. He is attending university this fall and wanted to strengthen his landscape skills so that he would have more well rounded abilities for his fine arts class. He has worked with other Jack Hamm books and found them to be extremely helpful. Jack Hamm's guides are suitable for youngsters and adults alike, and this book in particular is a useful guide for anyone interested in drawing. There is no wasted space; every page provides topical information as well as a practical step by step approach to composition. The price is so reasonable it's a shame to pass it by--even if you draw for pleasure rather than pursuing an art related career, this is a great book to own. One quarrel...it would last longer if hardcover. After just a few months in my son's hands it already looks well used. Of course the price makes it easy to buy two or three copies if you're using it frequently.
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