Drawing People for the Absolute Beginner: A Clear & Easy Guide to Successful Figure Drawing
Learn how to draw people with this clear & easy guide that's perfect for beginners.

Known for their friendly, focused approach to teaching art, Mark and Mary Willenbrink show beginning artists how to draw people in a realistic style. Inside you'll find everything you need to succeed, from how to select and hold your pencils to expert instruction on drawing hands, clothing and figures in motion. This book steers you clear of common mistakes and brings clarity to even notoriously tricky concepts like perspective and values.

While the human subject is wonderfully diverse, this book teaches an easy-to-learn approach that can be used to achieve accurate drawings every time. Thirteen complete figure drawing demonstrations show how. Start with a few lines to establish basic proportions, sketch in placement lines, then gradually develop details. Before you know it, you'll be drawing people of all ages, body types and personalities!

This book makes it easy to get started. The quality of your results will encourage you to keep at it, building your skills and your confidence with every stroke.

What's Inside:

   • Tricks for ensuring accurate body proportions and feature placement in your drawings.
   • Expert advice on drawing heads, hands, legs, clothes and more.
   • 13 step-by-step demonstrations featuring a diversity of model types, lighting and poses.
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Drawing People for the Absolute Beginner: A Clear & Easy Guide to Successful Figure Drawing
Learn how to draw people with this clear & easy guide that's perfect for beginners.

Known for their friendly, focused approach to teaching art, Mark and Mary Willenbrink show beginning artists how to draw people in a realistic style. Inside you'll find everything you need to succeed, from how to select and hold your pencils to expert instruction on drawing hands, clothing and figures in motion. This book steers you clear of common mistakes and brings clarity to even notoriously tricky concepts like perspective and values.

While the human subject is wonderfully diverse, this book teaches an easy-to-learn approach that can be used to achieve accurate drawings every time. Thirteen complete figure drawing demonstrations show how. Start with a few lines to establish basic proportions, sketch in placement lines, then gradually develop details. Before you know it, you'll be drawing people of all ages, body types and personalities!

This book makes it easy to get started. The quality of your results will encourage you to keep at it, building your skills and your confidence with every stroke.

What's Inside:

   • Tricks for ensuring accurate body proportions and feature placement in your drawings.
   • Expert advice on drawing heads, hands, legs, clothes and more.
   • 13 step-by-step demonstrations featuring a diversity of model types, lighting and poses.
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Drawing People for the Absolute Beginner: A Clear & Easy Guide to Successful Figure Drawing

Drawing People for the Absolute Beginner: A Clear & Easy Guide to Successful Figure Drawing

Drawing People for the Absolute Beginner: A Clear & Easy Guide to Successful Figure Drawing

Drawing People for the Absolute Beginner: A Clear & Easy Guide to Successful Figure Drawing

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Learn how to draw people with this clear & easy guide that's perfect for beginners.

Known for their friendly, focused approach to teaching art, Mark and Mary Willenbrink show beginning artists how to draw people in a realistic style. Inside you'll find everything you need to succeed, from how to select and hold your pencils to expert instruction on drawing hands, clothing and figures in motion. This book steers you clear of common mistakes and brings clarity to even notoriously tricky concepts like perspective and values.

While the human subject is wonderfully diverse, this book teaches an easy-to-learn approach that can be used to achieve accurate drawings every time. Thirteen complete figure drawing demonstrations show how. Start with a few lines to establish basic proportions, sketch in placement lines, then gradually develop details. Before you know it, you'll be drawing people of all ages, body types and personalities!

This book makes it easy to get started. The quality of your results will encourage you to keep at it, building your skills and your confidence with every stroke.

What's Inside:

   • Tricks for ensuring accurate body proportions and feature placement in your drawings.
   • Expert advice on drawing heads, hands, legs, clothes and more.
   • 13 step-by-step demonstrations featuring a diversity of model types, lighting and poses.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781440330216
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 06/20/2014
Sold by: Penguin Group
Format: eBook
Pages: 128
Sales rank: 751,970
File size: 42 MB
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About the Author

Mark and Mary Willenbrink are the husband and wife team of the internationally best selling Drawing for the Absolute Beginner, with their Absolute Beginner titles translated in more than a dozen languages. Mark and Mary enjoy teaching the fundamentals of art while encouraging everyone to “Have fun and keep up the good work!” Mark is a fine artist and art teacher who strives to do a sketch a day, while Mary is an author who loves reading, writing and spending time with family. The Willenbrinks live in southwestern Ohio with their growing number of rescue cats and dogs.
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