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for a present for someone i wd like to buy a non-expensive and lots-of-fun "teach yrself to draw" book

i actually saw the perfect ideal best evah possible version of this yesterday in greenwich open-air market - it wz by famed children's illustrator quentin blake (and someone else) - but the stallholder was not around and the ppl i were with were in a hurry to be off so (rather than just half-inch it, which is bad karma for presents as you know) i had to leave it

so do any ilxors have good suggestions?

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 26 April 2004 14:28 (twenty-two years ago)

pic by q.blake, if this helps:

http://www.nhm.ac.uk/news/images/bigdraw.jpg

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 26 April 2004 14:29 (twenty-two years ago)

The only "how to draw" book I ever used was Drawing On The Right Side Of The Brain which is quite technical and probably not very fun, but still incredibly good and I'd highly reccomend it, but it's probably not the sort of thing you're looking for.

It's all about how to draw something and have it come out looking like what it is, rather than about how to draw and be all creative and stuff.

― Super-Kate (kate), Monday, 26 April 2004 14:31 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah ditto right side, it's by far the best one i think.

― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 26 April 2004 14:36 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.kidsart.com/store/drawimg/EdsP.jpg
my biggest influence as a kid, outside of Tintin...

― sexyDancer, Monday, 26 April 2004 15:47 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.fumetti.org/gif/marvel.gif

― Chuck Tatum (Chuck Tatum), Monday, 26 April 2004 15:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Or how about

http://members.tripod.com/Adams_fan/fire10.jpg

― Chuck Tatum (Chuck Tatum), Monday, 26 April 2004 15:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, pooh.

― Chuck Tatum (Chuck Tatum), Monday, 26 April 2004 15:56 (twenty-two years ago)

[fresh morning bump]

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 27 April 2004 07:33 (twenty-two years ago)

"Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain" definitely taught me how to draw, and probably helped to get me into art school. So I also recommend it.

― Sengai, Tuesday, 27 April 2004 11:30 (twenty-two years ago)

"Perspective! for comic book artists" by David Chelsea.
(amazon link

This book is a delight!
Written in graphic novel form itself.

― cuspidorian (cuspidorian), Tuesday, 27 April 2004 11:47 (twenty-two years ago)

I have right side, but have never cracked it open. I think I'll give it a go, has to be better than my last worthless drawing prof./class (who taught us zero technique - yo, I'm in intro to drawing for a reason!)

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Tuesday, 27 April 2004 12:25 (twenty-two years ago)

does right side teach you to draw FACES and ppl generally, or is it abt perspective etc?

(it has such a strong vote that i am tempted to get it for myself - but present-wise it's about learning to draw better cartoons of ppl really)

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 27 April 2004 12:31 (twenty-two years ago)

it breaks drawing down into five cognitive skills (seeing: edges, spaces, relationship of objects, light and shadow, the 'whole') and then gives you specific exercises designed to address your weaknesses and improve on each skill individually. from there you get exercises that allow you to integrate all the new skills until - poof - you're a drawerer.

― mark p (Mark P), Tuesday, 27 April 2004 12:38 (twenty-two years ago)

oh my god, i worshipped ed emberley.

http://www.funorama.com/emberley.html

note that his greatest work, the Big Green Drawing Book, isn't listed there...

― Kingfish Disraeli (Kingfish), Tuesday, 27 April 2004 15:20 (twenty-two years ago)

seven years pass...

If I was going to do one of these, it would just say "do it all the fucking time & don't be lazy."

― offee is for losers only, do you not c? (Abbbottt), Wednesday, 4 May 2011 20:40 (fifteen years ago)

Tho I have to say the sight of that Emberley book is giving me ~~flashbacks~~

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swOhNVKospk

― offee is for losers only, do you not c? (Abbbottt), Wednesday, 4 May 2011 20:42 (fifteen years ago)

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