2024 the best pencil drawings review

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This compilation of projects from some of our most popular How to Draw and Paint series books provides inspiration and instruction on every aspect of pencil drawing.

From the fundamentals to advanced techniques, The Art of Pencil Drawing is filled with information that artists of all skill levels will find useful. Author-artist Gene Franks creates impressive drawings that seem to come to life right on the page - and in this comprehensive guide, he'll teach you how to do the same with simple, step-by-step demonstrations that cover a wide variety of subject matter - from still lifes and landscapes to animals and people. With this comprehensive reference, you'll soon discover how exciting drawing can be!

ASIN ‏ : ‎ 1560101865
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Walter Foster Publishing; Illustrated edition (January 1, 1991)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 144 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9781560101864
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1560101864
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.45 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.75 x 0.5 x 11.65 inches
Reviewer: Bullwinkle495
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Average--a bit deceptive since he copies photos
Review: Franks, like Barrington Barber, has made good money pumping out drawing books. But there is a little deception here: both authors copy photographs for their "step-by-step" examples, and never tell you that. You are led to believe that they are drawing things from life. Gene Franks at least mentions throughout his book that the reader can use photographs as sources (although Franks does not admit to it himself), but Barber does not even mention photographs as a source. This is important, because copying a photograph is a lot different than drawing from life, and it takes skill to take a good B/W source photo to even draw from, yet neither author mentions this. How do I know they copy photos? Because both authors include drawings that MUST be photo-sourced (like wild animals, or boats on a windy day), yet they both show the same step-by-step technique as drawing a cabbage. By deduction, one can conclude that their confident pencilwork on all the other drawings is simply because they have a static source where everything is worked out for them, i.e. the photograph, and all are drawn in the same "style". Having said this, neither artist tries to make their drawings look "photogaphic", and their drawings DO have a certain charm. But do not be fooled! To draw like this you had better assume your sources are photos, not real life. There are very few drawing instruction books that do not use photographs as sources, except Bridgman's Life Drawing or the Bargue/Gerome books from the French Academy, or Anthoy Ryder's book (and these all have their flaws). Having said all this, these books are decent if you can take good B/W photos and copy from them. The best drawing books are just books of master drawings. You learn about a wide variety of techniques and approaches and media from a single book (Robert Beverly Hale's 3 books are good, economical compilations--just ignore most of the anatomy discussion and look at the drawings).

Reviewer: Dieand Reed
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Very neat and clean
Review: I like all of Walter Foster books he is a great teacher, the book came just as the seller said very neat and clean

Reviewer: GPF
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Pencil Drawing
Review: This book are a good way to introduce pencil drawing (I have taken other training). Does not include a lot of basic information.

Reviewer: Amazon Customer
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: great examples of pencil art
Review: lots of great examples. I just wish there was a kindle version since I'm trying to reduce the book clutter.

Reviewer: J. Morrison
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great How To Book
Review: Gene Frank's books are my favorite learn to draw books. This one contains many of his drawings from his other publications. It is fun to go through the steps as he does with each drawing and see your results. Not a lot of words, just what tools he uses and 4 or 5 steps. This is an exceptional book.

Reviewer: dollybird
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: The art of pencil drawing
Review: I like the look of this book when I when to an arts group meeting what I find good it has drawing of so many different things that I can practice seen am no good at drawing and it would help improve my drawing skills yes I would recommend this book to any one who is interested in drawing

Reviewer: Greg D
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Probably better for more advanced artists
Review: I got this because, I draw as a hobby. I have attached one of my pictures. I'm not great so I thought this book would help. The book does have some good techniques and lets you know some of the drawing tools required, but it is also very vague in my opinion when you need step by step instruction. I would say this is more for the advanced artist. I also got the Basic Drawing book from this series, I will post a review after I dive into that one. I am thinking about doing some of the Kuberts school correspondence courses but that's around 200.00.

Reviewer: jkin
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Four Stars
Review: simple/ basic

Reviewer: Manuel tejada
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Me encanta se aprende muchoMuy bueno llegó muy rápido

Reviewer: Mr. G
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Excellent reference material. Step by step detailed instructions are quite helpful.

Reviewer: Al Rodrick
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Very good Just the job.

Reviewer: Memo
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: 今度購入した本が自分の勉強してることに役立つ。絵描きが好きな人に僕の薦めだ。

Reviewer: Amazon Customer
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Very useful.