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The Joy of Drawing: How to Draw Anything You See (or Imagine!)
The Joy of Drawing How to Draw Anything You See - or Imagine! Author:Bill Martin The first step in becoming an artist is learning how to draw realistically. The difference is that most people do not know how they see what they see....more The first step in becoming an artist is learning how to draw realistically. The difference is that most people do not know how they see what they see. In the painting belo... more »w, for example, why is the water transparent in the foreground but opaque in the distance? Why do the rock formations in the background seem far away? What do the relative sizes and shapes of the seashells tell us? Our judgments are based on experience, on a lifetime of interpreting visual clues. In this book, Bill Martin demonstrates just what these clues are and how artists can use them to create believable drawings. The Joy of Drawing explores shape and form, value, contrast, cast shadows, texture, reflections, transparency, elliptical and linear perspective, composition, and color - the very qualities we use innately to interpret the visible world. Each chapter includes exercises designed to help artists create the illusion of reality in their work.« less