The Joy of Drawing

By Bill Martin Jr.

An innovative approach to drawing based on how people see. The first step in becoming an artist, no matter what the medium or style, is learning how to draw realistically. Martin covers visual... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823023702
• ISBN13: 9780823023707
• Release Date: April 1993
• Publisher: Watson-Guptill
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.8" x 0.3" x 7.0"
• Age Range: 15 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 10 to 12

Customer Reviews

Can't be Beat

This little book provides one of the best reference on perspective (rendering convincing lifelike images on canvas) for beginning/intermediate artists. Whether its one point or two point vanishing points, cast shadows, reflective light, concave, convex, ellipses, clear glass, water, etc. Great for painters also. Bill Martins excellent use of drawing examples really gets the point across (a picture is worth a thousand words). Also you can't beat the affordable price.

An old favorite

This book is what got me started in art. Loaned out and never returned I was never able to find it again until now. It's as good as I remembered.

Drawing

Very good reference for those studying art, design, and fashion illustration. It explains how you can acquire the skill to draw even if you don't have natural artistic abilities.

Still Relevant in 2003!!

but the lessons on those pages are taught with such clarity they will stick with you and help when you go further with your talents into areas like colored pencil, watercolor, pen and ink, acrylics or even oils. The lessons include things like perspective, a lesson taught in just about every book on art written today. It seems so many books cover this topic because it is such a hard topic to teach - notice I say teach and not learn. If it was easy to teach then more of us would learn it and would not have such a hard time with the concept. Bill Martin has touched something in his lessons on perspective, at least for me, and I will never have the same difficulty with perspective again. At least if I do in the future, I will have this little gem to pick up and refer to! He does not cover this topic quickly, but goes into it slowly and covers it quite completely, as he does most difficult topics. I will no sell the four or five books on my shelves devoted to perspective, books purchased to help clarify a topic once so unclear. The only downside about his book is the section on color theory, which could be much more indepth. There is only a small chapter covering it at the end, almost as though it was an afterthought. It would have been great to see Mr. Martin tackle the important and often difficult topic of color with the same skill he had handled perspective and so many others in this great little book!