Popular author Lee Hammond is the queen of drawing instruction. In this latest book, she shows readers exactly how to make their work more lifelike and realistic.
Everyone has photographs of their favorite pets, and with Drawing Realistic Pets from Photographs, artists can now use them to create vibrant and lifelike paintings of their beloved furry and feathered friends. With best-selling author Lee Hammond's simple-to-understand instructions, readers will learn all the basics.
This book will have beginning artists of all ages drawing faces that are strikingly realistic and detailed. Artist Carrie Stuart Parks honed her fast and effective drawing skills as a professional forensic artist. Here she makes drawing fun and easy, showing beginners how to render vivid self portraits and portraits of others, all in a matter of hours.
Reaping the joys of drawing doesn't have to be a long and painful process. With Secrets to Realistic Drawing, even complete beginners can get great results fast. It's easy to create lifelike sketches in no time, with: -Encouraging instruction on all the drawing basics, from proportion and scaling to values and shading -Answers to the beginning artist's most frequently asked questions, as well as recommendations for materials and supplies -Easy-to-follow advice for fixing parts of a drawing that don't look quite right
