Drawing People for the Absolute Beginner: A Clear & Easy Guide to Successful Figure Drawing
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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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34 reviews for Drawing People for the Absolute Beginner: A Clear & Easy Guide to Successful Figure Drawing
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Nina Willoughby –
I had high hopes for this book. I found the authors’ portrait book very helpful and was encouraged to see a book on figure drawing that didn’t focus on nudes (nothing against life drawing–I’ve learnt a lot from it– but I need to be able to draw clothed folk).
This book seemed at best mediocre with respect to figure drawing. I should have heeded my instincts anout the cover (stilted pose). At worst, it’s just silly. It’s a good idea to do a book about figure drawing of clothed people, since many of us need to draw clothed people–but why so many sample drawings of people in C19 costumes? The reason I need a book other than the standard life drawing books is that most people wear clothes, and in the C21, they don’t wear top hats and ankle-length skirts. There are also two demonstrations of supposed ballet dancers; both of them get fundamentals wrong–their models obviously aren’t dancers, which may explain why they look so stilted. Why not just stick to what you know and draw people raking leaves or whatever?
There is nothing in this book about drawing the human figure that you won’t find better in any number of life drawing books, some of which (such as Jeff Mellem’s) also include material on clothing which is far better than the costume-drawing in the Willenbrink book.
My guess is that the publisher is encouraging these authors to write book after book and they’ve already written their best.
JOJO –
As good as any book can be versus studio live drawing
mr b james –
THIS WILL HELP ME A LOT.
SabriA P –
great
Happy Gal –
All of the “Absolute Beginner” books are excellent and this one is no exception. It has some excellent visual examples that are helping me tremendously. Figure drawing is hard, no doubt about it, but I encourage you to keep your practice drawings and sketches and go back through them after a couple of weeks. Even though I didn’t “feel” that I was improving, when I looked back through my practice stuff, I was really amazed at my progress.
No matter what medium you’re working in, find the “Absolute Beginner” book (they’re all on Amazon) and it’ll save you some money by not necessitating the purchase of a lot of additional books.
Slurm –
Awesome instruction… When learning to draw you must remember that the human brain works off of shapes, and this book describes in detail how to train yourself to draw in pieces rather than in picture.