How to Draw: A Comprehensive Drawing Course: Still Life, Landscapes, Buildings, People, and Portraits

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!

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.