Reducing stress and anxiety, boosting creativity and imagination or improving self-esteem are some of the benefits of drawing; an ideal ‘hobby’ for both minors and adults. To improve the technique and learn to draw all kinds of objects and landscapes, it is possible to turn to books and manuals that explain step by step or through tips how to draw correctly. We have collected some of them.
Learn to Draw: 50 Drawing Projects
From basic shapes such as cubes and spheres to animals, everyday objects, vehicles and even people, this book brings together a total of 50 projects to learn to draw. Designed for beginners, each proposal is accompanied by visual explanations that indicate step by step how to draw the lines and details necessary to shape the images.
A compilation of three manuals in one for all levels that aims to increase knowledge of drawing. Focused on freehand drawings with pencil, in the first one, for a basic level, simple issues of layouts are explained step by step; in the second, intermediate, progress is made towards higher level projects and in the last part, for people with a good level of drawing, more complex exercises are proposed. There is also a section dedicated to digital drawing and the creation of drawings related to the manga genre. At the end of each of the books there is an extra chapter with numerous images to reproduce.
Author: Michelle Draw
Editorial: Independent
The pleasure of botanical drawing
Aimed at cartoonists with a medium-advanced level and with an interest in the botanical world, it is a guide that has everything you need to draw and create realistic illustrations of wild flowers, vegetables and a multitude of plant proposals. Through short lessons with detailed illustrations, your readers can be guided in the use of colored pencils and watercolor to bring their favorite plants to life, adding all kinds of details in order to make the drawing as real as possible.
Tips, tricks and techniques are the key elements that make up this manual for those who want to learn how to draw portraits. With a step-by-step approach that is complemented by the fundamental methods of drawing, your readers will be able to trace faces, hair and different angles; also following advice to create complete portraits of men, women and children.
From days 1 to 30, readers can explore the basics of drawing and then apply them in order to draw flowers, animals, natural formations, human features… To do this, it has detailed instructions that are complemented by illustrations that help as an example. In addition, it contains a series of practical exercises to learn how to create lines, shapes, spaces and other elements in everyday objects.
Focused on a more children’s audience, it has 101 projects to learn to draw from scratch. Each of them is divided into a series of basic steps to follow to go, little by little, giving shape to complete figures and objects. Some start from lines or circles to which you can add small details in very simple steps and create, for example, a small walrus, a cactus or an elephant.
