The Drawing Book

by Wendon Blake

Book Overview

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823013650
• ISBN13: 9780823013654
• Release Date: January 1980
• Publisher: Watson-Guptill Pubns
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 3.50 lbs.
• Age Range: 14 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 9 to 12

Customer Reviews

The Drawing Book

There are 336 9X12 pages, with 700 black and white illustrations in The Drawing Book by Wendon Blake. This book which was published in 1980 has what more recent books on the subject lack: substance. Very informative, a lot of instruction and demonstrations which make artists like me wish they made more books like this. Not overly wordy, but very complete, this is the only drawing book you'll need to sharpen your skills. I've been doing artist's commissions for years and this is my preferred book.

Excellent

This book collects several of the other Wendon Blake books, such as the landscape and portrait books, into one volume. Good step by step illustrations showing close-ups of details in various stages of completion. The section on drawing parts of the face, for example, devotes a large page to each of the features, showing large drawings of the feature in four stages of rendering, with text beneath explaining what has been done to it since the previous drawing.The focus in on countour drawing and modeling with tones. Very little discussion of anatomy here, but the book is every good at examining the contours of the body and the earth from many angles. Its general methods remind me of those in Jack Hamm's Drawing the Head and Figure, but the illustrations are less highly stylzed and the text (336 pages of pictures and text) much more detailed.