Drawing for Beginners: How to Draw and Shade for Realism

This book is about drawing for beginners and it is helpful to those interested in developing basic knowledge and skills. It is concise, clear, no wasted words, very easy to understand, and well-written in a friendly way filled with encouragement and complemented with a lot of illustrations.

This book features verbal and visual explanations which makes the learning much easier and successful. The author contends that drawing and shading are skills that anyone can develop through patient practice and a lot of time spent on drawing even with no special talent for it.

Why should you choose this book over the hundred others of the same topic?

Because the author will teach you to draw realistic, lifelike drawings, to give a life to your drawing, instead of making flat, lifeless drawings.

Because the author is a self-taught artist and can tell you about her own experience and what she has gone through, instead of repeating the curriculum that she would have learned in school, if she had attended any art school.

Because the author won't tell you “Add some shading” that you can read in plenty of how-to-draw books by other authors, but she will explain to you in detail how to do it and how she does it with nothing left to be asked.

Because, through this book, you won't learn to draw a cube or cylinder that no one needs, but the things that you will want to draw for yourself or for the people around you: animals, human faces, everyday objects, 3D drawings and more.

Because the author will explain to you what she has realized through the years spent on drawing, so that you don't have to think about how to do something, but immediately start doing it, saving you time on study and searching for the answers on the Internet.

Because the author will encourage you to keep on drawing and inspire you, so that you will never want to stop doing it.

In this book you will find a lot of tips and tricks to kick-start your artwork and help you to achieve stunning results. Enjoy learning!