How to Draw: A Comprehensive Drawing Course: Still Life, Landscapes, Buildings, People, and Portraits (CompanionHouse Books) 350-Page Reference with 48 Projects and Beginner-Friendly Instructions - Softcover

Ian Sidaway; Susie Hodge

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1620082950 ISBN 13: 9781620082959

Publisher: Companionhouse Books, 2019

Synopsis

Start drawing today!

• Beginner-friendly guide to essential tools, materials, and basic drawing techniques
• 48 projects to create buildings, landscapes, people, animals, portraits, and still life
• Practical art instruction begins each project with a photograph and takes you step-by-step through recreating a drawing of it
• Helpful advice for artist's pencils, chalk, charcoal, dip pens, graphite sticks, and more

Anyone can learn to draw!

Drawing is an essential skill that represents the first step into all other visual arts. This practical book teaches aspiring artists how to draw the most popular topics: buildings, landscapes, people, portraits, and still life. Even if you're an absolute beginner, you'll be amazed by what you can achieve by working through this comprehensive book and learning from the tips, tricks, and know-how of experienced artists.

48 original, exciting projects provide the freedom to practice and perfect your skills without dreary routine exercises. Each demonstration features a photograph of the subject, the finished drawing, clear instructions, and step-by-step photos. How to Draw teaches you how to work with a variety of different media, including artist's pencils, chalk, charcoal, dip pens, graphite sticks, and more. You'll also find a beginner-friendly introduction to essential tools, materials, and basic drawing techniques.

Inside How to Draw, you'll start producing accomplished pieces right away, with step-by-step projects for a cute kitten, a rabbit, ducks, dogs, a horse, houses, a church, a cityscape, architectural ruins, a water mill, fields and trees, mountains and cliffs, distant snow-capped peaks, blue skies, a snow-covered landscape, a waterfall, a shoreline, a volcano and rainforest, and more. You'll learn how to draw children and adults of all skin tones standing, sitting, laughing, posing, dancing, and playing, and learn how to reproduce sepia images. Begin creating amazing portraits of babies, men, women, and children, and practice still life drawings of vegetables, flowers, a tea set, fruits, natural objects, fabric, and more.

Learn the basics of drawing, and get started with easy step-by-step guidance, with How to Draw from CompanionHouse Books!

About this title

About the Author

Ian Sidaway is an experienced UK artist and author who has been exhibited widely in Europe and the United States. A member of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours, he has written and illustrated more than 32 books on art instruction and technique.

Susie Hodge is an award-winning UK author, art historian, and artist who has written more than 100 books. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Susie runs workshops and seminars for various creative institutions and appears in TV documentaries as an expert commentator on the arts.

From the Back Cover

Start Drawing Today!

Anyone can learn to draw! This practical hands-on guide teaches aspiring artists how to draw all of the most popular subjects, from landscapes and portraits to still life. Even absolute beginners will be amazed at what they can achieve by working through this book and learning from the tips, tricks, and know-how of experienced artists. Forty-eight original, exciting projects get you started right away, freeing you to perfect your skills without dreary routine exercises.

Inside How to Draw:

• Practical art instruction for drawing all of the most popular topics: buildings, landscapes, people, animals, portraits, and still life.
• Beginner's guide to essential tools, materials, and basic drawing techniques.
• 48 projects each take you from a photograph of the subject to the finished drawing, with clear instructions and step-by-step photos.
• Advice on how to draw with a variety of different media, including artist’s pencils, chalk, charcoal, dip pens, graphite sticks, and more.

Edition details

• Publisher: Companionhouse Books
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1620082950
• ISBN 13: 9781620082959
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 352