How to Draw: 53 Step-by-Step Drawing Projects (Beginner Drawing Guides)

I bought this book for my 12 year old daughter. She loves it the explanation and pictures are easy to follow and has helped her with her drawing tenfold. Great book for all ages and well worth the money too 👍

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I'm just getting back to do some arty things this year so bought this thinking I'd go back to basics.It's probably a good book if you've never done any art classes (at any age), because it shows the very basics - which will get your mind planning before you put pencil to paper. The guides can be followed and after confidence builds you can start experimenting to find out own techniques.I liked that it showed basic structure for drawing, what I didn't like so much was the anthropomorphism applied to some of the subjects. I used it to help me get thinking about perspectives before drawing again, but didn't use as a workbook, which was what I was hoping to do.

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For the price, this book does provide a good number of exercises for you try. It also provides space for you to do this, forming a sort of 'all in one workbook'.However, I didn't find many of the exercises particularly interesting or stimulating. I understand beginning with basics, but as someone who had done some drawing previously and wanted to get back into it, I found myself skipping many of the early pages and realised I was losing motivation due to the nature of the drawings not really appealing to me. Perhaps some of this is just personal preference, and perhaps someone who is an absolute beginner would find the book more useful.The book does give step-by-step images for each exercise as described. However, it would have been nice to have some short text descriptions alongside these, as they can be ambiguous. For example, should a ruler be used for the guidelines on the 3D shapes? How is the crosshatch shown in the penultimate image of many exercises converted into shading? These are things beginners will not necessarily know and could perhaps use a bit of guidance on.There is definitely some value to this book if you are looking for something reasonably priced, are just starting out, and don't really mind what you are drawing. However, if you consider yourself anything above an absolute beginner, you would perhaps benefit more from a book which is more in-depth, or from directing your own practice with subjects you find interesting.

This is a great book. My son has really enjoyed it and loves the simple instructions in the book. A great buy for any child who loves drawing but gets frustrated about their own efforts. Sometimes a little direction/suggestion is all they need.

What is there is good examples and clear teaching , could have done with a bit more but hay! I’m getting good at drawing !

Gift for grandchild, she loved it.