Complete Drawing Course

"Your step-by-step guide to drawing and sketching in pencil, ink, charcoal, pastel, and colored pencil"--Cover.

Award-winning author and artist John Raynes shows you how to develop your drawing style. Gain a wealth of artistic insight and practical knowledge by following his advice that has been successful for over 30 years. He explores shape, form and volume, perspective and structure, composition, light and texture in easy-to-follow, step-by-step exercises to help you build your confidence and skill. You can practise your newly acquired skills on still life, landscape, buildings, portraits and figure painting, all executed in a wide range of media from pencil, charcoal and pastel to watercolour pencil and ink. Packed with practical tips and invaluable advice, 'The Complete Drawing Course' will allow you to tackle any subject with confidence.

From achieving those first professional strokes to mastering composition, lighting, and color to finishing beautiful still lifes, portraits, and landscapes, here is a course that covers every basic skill as well as more challenging lessons for the developing artist.

“Lively and accessible...progressing nicely from quick-pose sketches to more ambitious interpretations of both the character and the form of the person one is drawing...covers a variety of media and explores light and shadow, clothing and drapery....[Constance’s] use of cropping, pastels, collage, and monotypes attests to her preference for creative expressions....an outstanding book for public libraries.”—Library Journal.

This progressive course enables even the complete novice to tap into the magic of drawing, to use art to discover the world, and to create significant personal responses to reality and ideas. 768 illustrations.

A practical guide to drawing which takes the reader stage by stage through a course of 25 lessons covering still life, portraits, town- and landscapes.

Drawing and sketching are the foundation skills of all art. This book guides the reader through all the available options for materials, techniques and style.

This internationally bestselling guide covers essential drawing techniques, written by expert practical art author Barrington Barber. The Fundamentals of Drawing is a practical and comprehensive drawing course from beginner to advanced levels. Opportunities for practice and improvement are offered across a wide spectrum of subjects with step-by-step examples to guide you through. Subjects include: • Still life • Plants, nature and animals • Portraiture and life drawing • Perspective and composition The methods used in this book are time-honored and proven, having been practiced through the centuries by art students and professional artists. Barrington Barber brings his invaluable expertise as a working artist and teacher to the task of showing you how to use them effectively to create successful drawings. No matter what your level of expertise, you will find his clear approach encouraging and his way of teaching inspirational.