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    Ebook194 pages28 minutes

    Secrets of Drawing - Start to Finish

    By Craig Nelson

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    About this ebook

    A must-have reference for anyone who draws!

    This is your complete guide to drawingpacked with everything you need to know about materials, techniques and drawing styles. Learn the secrets to rendering any subject, and quickly find the answers to common problems and questions so that you can get back to the drawing board. Secrets of Drawing, Start to Finish is a handy, one-stop reference that beginners and experienced artists simply can't be without.

    Learn how to:

    • Master essential line and tone techniques
    • Use proper perspective and proportions
    • Create everything from quick sketches to finished drawings
    • Draw in graphite, charcoal, pen and ink, colored pencil, pastel and more.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNorth Light Books
    Release dateJul 15, 2012
    ISBN9781440321726
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    Secrets of Drawing - Start to Finish
    Author

    Craig Nelson

    Craig Nelson is the author of Pearl Harbor: From Infamy to Greatness and the New York Times bestseller, Rocket Men: The Epic Story of the First Men on the Moon, as well as several previous books, including The Age of Radiance (a PEN Award Finalist chosen as one of the year’s best books by NBC News, the American Institute of Physics, Kirkus Reviews, and FlavorWire), The First Heroes, Thomas Paine (winner of the Henry Adams Prize), and Let’s Get Lost (shortlisted for W.H. Smith’s Book of the Year). His writing has appeared in Vanity Fair, The Wall Street Journal, Salon, National Geographic, The New England Review, Popular Science, Reader’s Digest, and a host of other publications.

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      It was a good overall perspective of drawing tools and techniques, but it lacked specific instruction. I felt it made a lot of generalizations without any real-world how-to.