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Master the Essentials of Realistic Drawings
With Lee Hammond's Big Book of Drawing, your art will spring to life! From laughing children and frolicking tigers to fruit so vivid it makes your mouth water, you'll discover how to realistically draw your favorite subjects and how to draw them well! Learn to:
- Use easy-to-master graphing and shaping techniques to better portray your subject
- Replicate the effects of light through blending and shading
- Accurately render the personalities of people and animals
- Realistically draw flowers and natural elements by applying hard or soft edges
- Achieve a range of effects by using different brands of colored and graphite pencils
Whether you're a beginner or a professional, with Lee Hammond's instruction you'll find the arsenal of tools you need to create stunning, real-life drawings that will captivate your audience.
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Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Really handy guide and referal book,
By Art Fanatic (Ontario, Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Lee Hammond's Big Book of Drawing (Paperback)
I got this for Christmas, and have used it ever since. This is a great book, which has a lot of tips and instructions. Lee Hammond includes recommended materials, and explains their use, and different types of paper you can choose from. She goes over all aspects of drawing with pencil, both people and animals, and shows how to draw with coloured pencil. I picked up some new skills while poring through this book. I also gained more confidence in drawing with pencil crayons. I refer back to this book often, and would recommend it to anyone.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
Beware > superficial compilation of her other books,
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This review is from: Lee Hammond's Big Book of Drawing (Paperback)
I am very disappointed to find half of this book to be haphazardly cut and pasted from "How to Draw Lifelike Portraits from Photographs". It covers both graphite and coloured pencil techniques but only superficially. If you're serious about studying Hammond's methods, I would recommend purchasing her books separately eg "How to Draw Lifelike Portraits from Photographs", "How to Draw Portraits in Coloured Pencil from Photographs", "Lifelike Drawing with Lee Hammond" etc.
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4.4 out of 5 stars (34 customer reviews) 97 of 98 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
A Wise Investment,
By Fish Cheeks - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Lee Hammond's Big Book of Drawing (Paperback)
Lee Hammond is a good art instructor, but I must confess that some of her work is repetitive. The first book I got of hers was "How to Draw Real People." An EXCELLENT book- everything broken down and made simple. Then I got "How to Draw" Hands, Fashion Models, Animals, Sports Figure, Family, and Friends, etc. All of these books are quite the same. The first half of each book is dedicted to materials, graphing, blending, a few exercises, and then examples of her artwork. I realized that I had been wasting my money on all of those books. If you know how to blend or whatever, then you're pretty much set. However, I do suggest getting Real People, Fashion models, and Hands. If you insist on getting Hammond's books, I suggest getting "Lee Hammond's Big Book of Drawing." It's like all of her books finally being joined together to make one big dictionary of some sort. It would be a wise investment to get that instead of all of the other ones, which can become costly.
32 of 33 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
A great book on drawing,
By Lene Daugaard - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Lee Hammond's Big Book of Drawing (Paperback)
I like this book very much.It is very helpful on learning to draw in pencils and colored pencils (include watersoluble cp's). Subjects are people, animals and flowers. Both beginners and people who has started drawing will find it useful. Lee Hammond describes in an easy to understand way about drawing materials, graphing photos, linedrawing, shading and the valuescale egg. She shows many different subjects and goes specific into details on both human and animal-features : eyes, nose, hair egg. And it leads to a final drawing: a portray or an animaldrawing. The only reason it didn't get 5 stars is because; if you have some of her books already, there will be some repetition to it. (the special-books have more lessons, though). And also I find a few of her drawings not so good (as her usual standards), but that's minor. Most are excellent. 31 of 32 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
The Best Drawing Book I've Seen,
By Alice Ramirez - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Lee Hammond's Big Book of Drawing (Paperback)
This is the book that really helped me! The other one I like is the old standard "Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain." But for practical, usable exercises that will give you immediate results, this is definitely the book to have! Since I didn't have any of Hammond's previous books, there was no problem for me with repitition of material. I love that she is very specific in naming materials and explaining why she uses certain brands of materials vs. others. If you get only one drawing book, this should be it!
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