I have to admit, I have a couple of books in this series. How to Paint and How to Draw. But today I want to talk to you about the How to Draw book. :)
One of the things I like is how the drawings look like they are in perspective, and directions are very clear about why you want to draw certain shapes to suit the object you are trying to draw, like a large plant eating dinosaur would have block-like limbs to hold him up, whereas an dinosaur built to run would have angular limbs and more circles where their joints would be.
Drawing a horse would use bigger circles and triangles with straight lines joining them. And cat would be circles, small squares and triangle eyes. It's neat to watch it all come together, smoothing out the lines to form the sleek animals one sees around them.
I have been told that drawing people is hard (and coming from someone who draws stick figure people I believe it). So having eight pages of different ways to draw people is an important part to have in a book.
How would you draw a football player?
How to Draw
Author: Helen Webster
Pages: 48
Type: Art Book, softcover
Publisher: Capella
Series: How to
Where to find:
Amazon.ca: How to Draw
Amazon.com: How to Draw
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I used to love how to draw book and we have several of them around the house-- a how to draw cars, a how to draw pokemon, and a few how to draw animal books.
ReplyDeletethey are rather handy to have around aren't they?
DeleteWe have a bundle of these but the girls don't seem to enjoy them all that much. They do have lots of good tips in them, though. - Lori
ReplyDeleteI know, they do, don't they. Come in handy I mean.
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