How to Draw Step by Step: A Visual Guide to Realistic Drawing

Enjoy learning to draw with this complete guide to realistic drawing!

From nature to food to animals, buildings, and transportation, you’ll discover just how easy drawing can be with a simple two-stage process. Features include:

• More than 55 drawing demonstrations from Apple to Zeppelin, organized by subject (food, nature, and more).
• Hundreds of large illustrations for visual step-by-step instructions.
• Easy two-stage process: first, create a structural sketch; then add values to complete the drawing.
• Six step-by-step composition scenes, including a still life and landscapes, built on drawings learned throughout the book.
• Helpful icons for which drawing tool to use, which direction the light source is coming from, and which demonstrations appear in the six step-by-step composition scenes at the end.

 Valuable drawing lessons include:

• Learn the materials needed for successful drawing and how to use them.
• The use of measuring, proportioning, and aligning.
• How to create the illusion of depth with perspective and values.

Mark and Mary Willenbrink love to encourage others to grow in their gifts and talents. They are the husband-and-wife team of the best-selling Drawing for the Absolute Beginner. Translated into more than a dozen languages, their Absolute Beginner art instruction books are sold internationally. Mark and Mary live in West Chester, Ohio, with their rescued dog and cats