Sketching People: Life Drawing Basics

By Jeff Mellern and Jeff Mellem

Book Overview

Life Lessons- Learn How to Capture a World Constantly in Motion Fluid, fast and expressive life drawing starts here. Step by step, you'll learn to render fleeting gestures from memory, capture expressions simply and more quickly, give your drawing a life of its own with body language, and more. Along the way, you'll develop a more spontaneous approach for successfully working from life. Inside you'll find- .A comprehensive course on drawing from life, based on classic principles .Essential techniques for drawing gesture, figures, clothing, expression, body language and more .Lots of exercises that bring lessons to life The skills you'll learn from this book are so fundamental that every artist will find something in these useful lessons for making the most of all the inspiration that life has to offer.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1600611508
• ISBN13: 9781600611506
• Release Date: July 2009
• Publisher: North Light Books
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 1.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.2" x 10.8"

Customer Reviews

Drawing fundamentals would be a better title.

This book gives an extremely general overview for drawing by giving very brief explanations of things like using cubes or cylinders as frames for sketching figures, or how fabric folds, drawing rough shapes before filling in details, etc; and provides a couple of rough, almost cartoonish, sketches as examples... Most of the information isn't specifically related to drawing people, it's stuff like why you use shading in drawing, what a vantage point is, or why settings matter to show where something is supposed to be (of course each of these general brush overs has a sketch of a person or part of a person connected to it, and there are a few points specifically related to drawing people, like that wrenching hands express "anguish" and relaxed hands "show no sign of tension"... otherwise it isn't so much a book about the basics of drawing people)... It's worth it for someone who's just learning how to draw in general, but if you can draw anything really well, this probably isn't the book for you.