Drawing Made Easy

How to Draw from Observation and Imagination

by Robbie Lee

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Pub Date 31 Jul 2018 | Archive Date 30 Jul 2018

F+W Media | IMPACT Books

Arts & Photography | Reference

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Description

In the same easy to understand and fun to experience style as Perspective Made Easy, Robbie Lee shows readers, step by step, the basic drawing skills they need to build a successful base on which to build any style of drawing expertise. With a fun robot as their guide, readers will experience immediate success as they follow along with more than 20 step-by-step demonstrations and 30 lessons on topics such as the drawing process, perspective, drawing people, and drawing scenes. The book also broaches the differences in drawing methods: spontaneous drawing, drawing from observation, and drawing from your imagination. The simple language and graphic novel approach makes it all fun and easy.

A Note From the Publisher

Robbie Lee has been a professional illustrator for 20 years and has been teaching art for 12 years. His teaching experience includes visual and digital art for middle school kids, as well as workshops on perspective drawing for adults. Robbie's professional illustration work ranges from advertisements and video games to backpacks and skateboards. The bulk of his work lies in T-shirt design, where he's concocted hundreds of designs that have sold over 150,000 tees.

Robbie Lee has been a professional illustrator for 20 years and has been teaching art for 12 years. His teaching experience includes visual and digital art for middle school kids, as well as...

Available Editions

EDITION	Other Format
ISBN	9781440352904
PRICE	£16.99 (GBP)
PAGES	128

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Arvenig B, Reviewer

First of all thanks to NetGalley and the publishers for the digital copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

This is all about how to get better at drawing and it starts with simple things like materials and lines and goes through shapes, shadings, drawing from pictures and life, proportions, perspective and ends with scenery.

I love the style of the book, it’s very organized, colorful, with an amazing design and a robot-narrator that explains everything creatively and easily, but still using technical terms (which are important).
 I really like drawing and I already read some books to get better at it such the very similar book “21 draw illustrator’s guidebook” (though Drawing Made Easy is for more traditional artist (with pencil and eraser)), but this one is the best one I’ve read yet! Especially for the drawing humans and drawing from pictures and life parts.

At the beginning I admit I skimmed some pages since basic stuff doesn’t ever really change, but I found some interesting and useful tips in there as well!

One thing I’ve never really been good at is life drawing (probably because I’ve never really tried, but whatever) so I tried drawing a chair using Robbie Lee’s tips and this is the result! (I don’t think it’s perfect, but I think it’s good considering it’s my first time really drawing from life!) -> http://www.arvenig.it/blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/IMG_9329.png

Final Thoughts:
I think this is a perfect book for beginners, but also artists who never really studied theory.

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A very practical book to learn topics such as the drawing process, perspective, drawing people, and drawing scenes in a very creative way. The author approaches different drawing methods like drawing from observation, drawing from imagination and others. I liked the comic style used as graphical method for the tutorials