In The Complete Guide to Drawing for Beginners, experienced art instructor Yoshiko Ogura explains the basics of pencil drawing through a series of lessons that provide insights on artistic composition, simulating highlights and shadows, depicting realistic forms, rendering texture and creating a sense of depth in your artwork. At the beginning of the book, she provides you with all the information you need to get started-what materials to buy, how...

In Drawing Anatomy, teacher and artist, Barrington Barber, begins his exploration of this area of art by explaining what the body is made of and then reviews each section of the human figure in detail in separate chapters. Aimed at artists of all abilities, Drawing Anatomy is packed with easy-to-follow, fully annotated illustrations.

Still life has been a popular genre for many hundreds of years, and artists wishing to explore it can find inspirational examples from the time of the romans right up to the present day, encompassing murals from the Italian Renaissance, the lavish floral studies from the Netherlands in the early 17th century, the exuberant handling of the Impressionists, and the surprising new shapes and dimensions introduced by the Cubists and Surrealists. In The...

In this companion volume to his highly successful Fundamentals of Drawing, Barrington Barber takes the aspiring artist one step further in the quest for skill and competence. If you have come this far on the journey with him you will know that the more you practice the more visual surprised you are presented with and the more problems there are to overcome. In this book, you will be shown how to find solutions to these challenges through the application...

Anyone with a little persistence and the desire can learn to draw well - this is the starting point for The Fundamentals of Drawing, a practical and comprehensive course for students of all abilities. Opportunities for practice and improvement are offered across a wide spectrum of subjects - still life, plants, landscapes, animals, figure drawing and portraiture - and supported by demonstrations of a broad range of skills and techniques, including...

The human figure is one of the most popular subjects for artists, and a thorough working knowledge of anatomy is essential for those wishing to portray it successfully. With clear, annotated diagrams throughout, this is a comprehensive yet accessible art book on drawing the human anatomy; with each chapter dealing with a different part of the body, making it easy to look up different body areas.