The Drawing Bible is your definitive drawing resource! As a complete, start-to-finish course, it teaches you both how to draw and how to use a range of drawing materials. As a reference, it provides answers and hands-on solutions to all your drawing questions.

Award-winning artist Craig Nelson offers easy-to-understand lessons on everything from how to suggest depth and dimension to evoking a sense of motion, ways to experiment with mixed media, and developing your personal style. Even typically challenging subjects like perspective and drawing the human figures become achievable with this straightforward instruction.

A full presentation of every supply you'd ever want to use to draw, along with masterful drawings throughout (both black and white and color) will inspire you with a wide range of subjects and expressive possibilities. You'll learn all about line and tone, perspective, proportion, composition, creating a painting from a drawing, and much more.

Follow along with over 20 step-by-step demonstrations and discover great advice on creating light and shadow, drawing faces and figures, landscapes, still lifes, animals'

Whether drawing for you is a way to gather information and test out ideas for your paintings...a quick and spontaneous way to capture a fleeting impression...or a satisfying end in and of itself...this book will help you make the very most of every drawing minute.

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