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Author: Robin Landa
ISBN : B00GLTAGKI
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Kean University Teacher of the Year Robin Landa has cleverly disguised an entire college-level course on drawing in this fun, hands-on, begging-to-be-drawn-in sketchbook. Even if you’re one of the four people on this planet who have never picked up a pencil before, you will learn how to transform your doodles into realistic drawings that actually resemble what you’re picturing in your head.
In this book, you will learn how to use all of the formal elements of drawing–line, shape, value, color, pattern, and texture–to create well-composed still lifes, landscapes, human figures, and faces. Keep your pencils handy while you’re reading because you’re going to get plenty of drawing breaks– and you can do most of them right in the book while the techniques are fresh in your mind. To keep you inspired, Landa breaks up the step-by-step instruction with drawing suggestions and examples from a host of creative contributors including designers Stefan G. Bucher and Jennifer Sterling, artist Greg Leshé, illustrator Mary Ann Smith, animator Hsinping Pan, and more.Direct download links available for The Guided Sketchbook That Teaches You How To DRAW! [Kindle Edition] Free Download
- File Size: 6712 KB
- Print Length: 222 pages
- Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0321940504
- Simultaneous Device Usage: Up to 5 simultaneous devices, per publisher limits
- Publisher: Peachpit Press; 1 edition (November 11, 2013)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00GLTAGKI
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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- Lending: Not Enabled
- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #662,101 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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I am still working my way through this book, but I like it. At first I was a bit nervous to start drawing in the book, but then I realized that that is what it's for! So I threw out my fear and started drawing. My first drawing was even recognizable to someone else without prompting (a tornado - well, two tornados - although he thought my tree in the whirlwind was a house, but whatever, that's why I'm reading this book, right?)
I like that it gives you both the reasons for doing something as well as the instructions. So you're also learning how to appreciate art/drawing as you're learning how to do it.
I wish the book had actually been spiral bound, rather than glue/perfect binding, so that it would be easier to use it as a sketchbook.
By Jennifer Kyrnin
This book takes a rather academic approach to teach drawing. By academic, I mean lots of text and instructions with not much visuals.
While the instructions are clear and easy to follow, the lessons would be more fun and impactful with more illustrated examples.
Say for example, there's a section where it talks about values and the different effects that result. It's difficult to feel the effect when you're just reading about them and can't see them, although I must say that there are exercises in the book where you practice creating those values. Half the book are instructions with blank space for you to draw on so I guess you'll have lots of practice.
By the way, the most important pages in the book are pages 10 and 11 on drawing what you see by measuring and judging the relationship between spaces and points. Many of the later lessons use the techniques taught in those two pages.
Personally for me, I prefer a book on drawing instructions with lots of drawing, such as Bert Dodson's Keys to Drawing, or even Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain by Betty Edwards which has lots of text too. I guess I'm not particularly inspired by this book because it does not show what you can achieve after going through the lessons -- there aren't a lot of visual examples as I've mentioned.
Before you buy, I highly recommend you use Amazon's Look Inside feature to preview the pages.
By Parka
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