The Complete Guide to Drawing: A Practical Course for Artists

by Barrington Barber

Overview

Anyone who desires to learn to draw well can do so with a little persistence - this is the starting point for The Complete Guide to Drawing, a practical and comprehensive course for students of all abilities.

Whether you want to draw a still life, landscapes, figures, or portraits, Barrington Barber brings his invaluable expertise as a working artist and teacher to the task of showing you how.

• Includes advice on materials, equipment, and techniques
• Explains the fundamentals of drawing objects, people, animals, and nature
• Teaches the core skills of perspective, composition, and shading
• Contains step-by-step drawings and exercises to practise

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781788885942
Publisher:	Arcturus Publishing
Publication date:	10/25/2018
Series:	Barrington Barber FTP 24.10.18
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	22 MB
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About the Author

Barrington Barber is a renowned authority on teaching drawing and also a practising artist. After training as a graphic designer, he went into advertising, working for top agencies before progressing to freelance design and producing illustrations for a range of books and magazines. He taught art for many years and has written and illustrated books including Everyone Can Draw and The Art of Meditative Drawing. He lives in Wimbledon, London.
Born 1934, Barrington was educated at Hampton Grammar School and later Twickenham Art Schoo for which he received a National Diploma of Design. He then practised as an illustrator (Saxon Artist) and Graphic Designer, was Art Director at Ogilvie&Mather and S.H. Bensons, and was a lecturer in Graphic Design at Ealing Art School. Other credits include freelance work, designer, illustrator, animator and painter at Augustine Studios. He was awarded a one man exhibition in 2000 at St. Oswald Studios, and also exhibited in Putney in 2003 and Cork Street in 2004. He was Head of Art at St James's Independent Schools. He now paints, draws, writes about art, and enjoys sports, walking, philosophy and meditation.