You Can Draw in 30 Days: The Fun, Easy Way to Learn to Draw in One Month or Less

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Hachette Books, Jan 4, 2011 - Art - 256 pages
Pick up your pencil, embrace your inner artist, and learn how to draw in thirty days with this approachable step-by-step guide from an Emmy award-winning PBS host.
Drawing is an acquired skill, not a talent -- anyone can learn to draw! All you need is a pencil, a piece of paper, and the willingness to tap into your hidden artistic abilities. With Emmy award-winning, longtime PBS host Mark Kistler as your guide, you'll learn the secrets of sophisticated three-dimensional renderings, and have fun along the way -- in just twenty minutes a day for a month. Inside you'll find:
  • Quick and easy step-by-step instructions for drawing everything from simple spheres to apples, trees, buildings, and the human hand and face
  • More than 500 line drawings, illustrating each step
  • Time-tested tips, techniques, and tutorials for drawing in 3-D
  • The 9 Fundamental Laws of Drawing to create the illusion of depth in any drawing
  • 75 student examples to encourage you in the process

 

Contents

Introduction
1
Lesson 1 The Sphere
11
Lesson 2 Overlapping Sphere
17
Lesson 3 AdvancedLevel Spheres
23
Lesson 4 The Cube
41
Lesson 5 Hollow Cubes
53
Lesson 6 Stacking Tables
63
Lesson 7 AdvancedLevel Cubes
73
Lesson 16 The Wave
137
Lesson 17 Rippling Flags
143
Lesson 18 The Scroll
149
Lesson 19 Pyramids
153
Lesson 20 Volcanoes Craters and a Cup of Coffee
157
Lesson 21 Trees
163
Lesson 22 A Room in OnePoint Perspective
171
Lesson 23 A City in OnePoint Perspective
179

Lesson 8 Cool Koalas
83
Lesson 9 The Rose
89
Lesson 10 The Cylinder
99
Lesson 11 AdvancedLevel Cylinders
105
Lesson 12 Constructing With Cubes
111
Lesson 13 AdvancedLevel Houses
117
Lesson 14 The Lily
123
Lesson 15 Contour Tubes
129
Lesson 24 A Tower in TwoPoint Perspective
185
Lesson 25 A Castle in TwoPoint Perspective
193
Lesson 26 A City in TwoPoint Perspective
203
Lesson 27 Lettering in TwoPoint Perspective
211
Lesson 28 The Human Face
217
Lesson 29 The Human Eye of Inspiration
227
Lesson 20 Your Hand of Creativity
233
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You Can Draw in 30 Days: The Fun, Easy Way to Learn to Draw in One Month Or Less
Mark Kistler
Limited preview - 2011
You Can Draw in 30 Days: The Fun, Easy Way to Learn to Draw in One Month or Less
Mark Kistler
No preview available - 2011

Common terms and phrases

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About the author (2011)

Mark Kistler is the author of nineteen books, including You Can Draw in 30 Days. He has worked as a classroom educator, a large audience presenter, an Emmy Award-winning television personality, a bestselling author/illustrator, a popular "virtual" instructor, and a respected drawing teacher for both adults and children. Each year, Mark Kistler travels to scores of schools around the country presenting his "Drawing in 3-D" assemblies and his evening Family Workshops to tens of thousands of adults and children.

Bibliographic information

TitleYou Can Draw in 30 Days: The Fun, Easy Way to Learn to Draw in One Month or Less
AuthorMark Kistler
PublisherHachette Books, 2011
ISBN0786727233, 9780786727230
Length256 pages
Subjects ›  › 

Art / Study & Teaching
Art / Techniques / Drawing
Art / Techniques / Pencil Drawing
  
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