Comments on: The Best Books for Learning How to Draw https://thevirtualinstructor.com/blog/the-best-books-for-learning-how-to-draw Sat, 13 Jul 2019 19:46:29 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.5 By: Christine Robinson https://thevirtualinstructor.com/blog/the-best-books-for-learning-how-to-draw/comment-page-1#comment-12837 Mon, 30 May 2016 19:10:00 +0000 http://thevirtualinstructor.com/blog/?p=2464#comment-12837 Drawing on the right side of your brain is a brilliant book and really interesting too 🙂

]]> By: Christine Robinson https://thevirtualinstructor.com/blog/the-best-books-for-learning-how-to-draw/comment-page-1#comment-12769 Thu, 09 Jul 2015 17:01:00 +0000 http://thevirtualinstructor.com/blog/?p=2464#comment-12769 I’m fascinated by realistic pencil drawings so I got myself 3 new books and they are good they are :
Realistic textures by Diane Cardaci on the Walter Foster Drawing Made Easy series.
Understanding values by Ken Goldman also on the Walter Foster Drawing Made Easy series
How to Draw From Photographs by Diane Cardaci which is still on Walter Foster books but this one is in the Artists Library Series.

These are a great help especially if you want your drawings to be realistic.
Which is my goal.

]]> By: Jac https://thevirtualinstructor.com/blog/the-best-books-for-learning-how-to-draw/comment-page-1#comment-12764 Thu, 25 Jun 2015 20:40:00 +0000 http://thevirtualinstructor.com/blog/?p=2464#comment-12764 One of my favorite instructional figure drawing books is Michael Hampton’s, “Figure Drawing, Design and Invention”. It is for the novice but an experienced artist would find it very helpful with respect to basic “surface” anatomy. It’s quite wonderful.

]]> By: Matt Fussell https://thevirtualinstructor.com/blog/the-best-books-for-learning-how-to-draw/comment-page-1#comment-12761 Thu, 25 Jun 2015 13:08:54 +0000 http://thevirtualinstructor.com/blog/?p=2464#comment-12761 In reply to AM Seward.

Thanks for the suggestion, AM!

]]> By: AM Seward https://thevirtualinstructor.com/blog/the-best-books-for-learning-how-to-draw/comment-page-1#comment-12757 Sun, 14 Jun 2015 14:45:00 +0000 http://thevirtualinstructor.com/blog/?p=2464#comment-12757 I’ve found Drawing with Your Artist’s Brain by Carl Purcell very helpful. It’s my “go to” book.

]]> By: Rhonda https://thevirtualinstructor.com/blog/the-best-books-for-learning-how-to-draw/comment-page-1#comment-11880 Mon, 15 Sep 2014 21:50:08 +0000 http://thevirtualinstructor.com/blog/?p=2464#comment-11880 I am a complete newbie to drawing…spent most of my life believing I had absolutely NO ABILITY to draw. I decided to prove ‘they’ were wrong. I found the book ” You can draw in 30 days” by Mark Kistler to be a great help. Good explanations and exercises that are perfect for the true beginner. I can now actually draw a flower that does not look like something a 3 year old would do. Between this book and this course, I’m making great progress!

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