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The Complete Book of Drawing: Essential Skills for Every Artist by [Barrington Barber]

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The Complete Book of Drawing: Essential Skills for Every Artist Kindle Edition

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What does every budding artist need to know about drawing? And what quick skills can you pick up to help you on the way? In this instructive book, Barrington Barber shows you just this, offering tips and tricks as he guides you through the fundamental aspects of drawing.

Get to grips with still-life composition, draw dynamic bodies in motion, and capture the spectacular natural world. The Complete Book of Drawing is a distillation of the many skills that the aspiring artist needs to develop.

As Barrington Barber knows from his many years of teaching and practising art, it is crucial for you to develop your own artistic style. And, uniquely among practical art books, this is what The Complete Book of Drawing provides. By revealing the nuances of texture, composition and perspective, this book will enable you to look at the world around you with fresh eyes.

Length: 350 pages	Enhanced Typesetting: Enabled	Page Flip: Enabled
Language: English

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Barrington Barber is a renowned author in the field of teaching drawing skills and a practicing artist. He enjoys a successful career as a commercial illustrator and fine artist and has written and illustrated a wide range of best-selling instructive art books. --This text refers to the paperback edition.

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Format: Kindle Edition
File Size: 89909 KB
Print Length: 350 pages
Page Numbers Source ISBN: 1848375360
Publisher: Arcturus (16 January 2018)
Sold by: Amazon Asia-Pacific Holdings Private Limited
Language: English
ASIN: B0791LVMCD
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Anisha alemao

Love it 😍

Reviewed in India on 26 January 2020

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Oh I'm glad that I ordered this book..... It's has everything thing that an beginner artist has to know about sketching... The book is really nice... And fat too..and I got it for a great deal... I recommend this book for every single beginner artist out there

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Rahul Kunwar

Good for overview.

Reviewed in India on 5 May 2020

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No in-depth discussion available. It is good only for revision purposes, for a beginner this book will not lead anywhere when it comes yo human scale, basics, proportions and detailing. Its more pf an over view for-exam preparations.

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NITISH RANJAN

Very nice book

Reviewed in India on 18 August 2018

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I liked the book very much, it covers almost all the topic in sketching

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ashok kumar mathur

Don't like

Reviewed in India on 25 July 2020

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I want to return it and exchange it with book on paper form. I shall pay the excess amount

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Aditya kumar

Nice product

Reviewed in India on 18 August 2019

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David

A great comprehensive book that is great value for money.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 19 February 2017

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For those people like me that are not naturally that good at drawing, but want to improve, this book is fantastic. It is so comprehensive, covering a range of different types of drawings and techniques. What I particularly like is that the step-by-step guides are both detailed and easy to follow. Like with anything, it takes practice and you will not get there overnight! But this is certainly not related to what the book offers.

The only potential drawback is that there is a lot of detail in this book and this might prove to be a bit daunting! However, this is not a criticism of the book, it is just something that should be taken into account.

This is a great book for a great price! No, I have not turned into the next Da Vinci, but I have definitely learned some great techniques. I would recommend this book to all fellow aspiring artists.

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Zoso

Great book for a beginner, and probably much further than that!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 2 June 2019

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Had a flick through this big book, covers a wide variety of pencil techniques and styles, in an easy to follow format. The first few exercises took this guy in his 40s, who hadn’t drawn since school, to drawing a shaded and shadowed cube and sphere, and then drew a passable coffee cup. On day one, in a couple of hours! Excited to see what I can learn in time from this. Buy with confidence.

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Steve, Oldham.

A realistic approach to understanding the fundamentals of drawing

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 7 December 2018

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This book is a good guide to any budding artist, or anyone wishing to improve their own drawing skills. A good range of techniques and related exercises are suggested. It is hard to see how anyone with an interest in drawing would not benefit from the practice of these. One of the features is the authors ability to relate to known artists and how they used certain techniques and methods to great effect. As a result not only does the reader have the opportunity to improve their drawing skills, but they will also gain a deeper appreciation of the use of these skills by great artists throughout history.

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Al, Semper Paratus

Bigger is sometimes better.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 7 November 2019

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A comprehensive, if not altogether encyclopedic, volume. Mr Barber takes the budding artist from basic principles onward.
The only caveat I would issue is that this is an expansion of his ' The Fundamentals of Drawing' in itself an excellent primer.

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Rachel

Heavy but worth it

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 26 July 2018

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The packaging for this was enourmous. Also the book is alot thicker and heavier than i expected. As i was planning on taking the book with me and draw when im out in nature. I cannot easily do that. However, there is lots of information and techniques within the book. Definetly worth the money. The book is exactly how it says in the description.

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anura33

Very good book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 25 January 2014

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The book arrived quickly and although pre-owned, was in excellent condition. I have only just started to work through it but I think it will help my drawing skills enormously. Obviously, I'm anxious to move on to the more interesting stuff, but I think the early exercises will be invaluable in teaching how to actually draw the "more interesting stuff" and while I don't possess the degree of technical knowledge of some of the other reviewers, I am, nevertheless, very pleased with my purchase and would recommend it.

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C. Stephens

Has got me started

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 23 April 2014

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I have started drawing at 63 because my grandchildren want me to help them draw. I was always hopeless at art at school and now I realise it's because we were never taught any techniques (back in the good old 60s!) I will never be a great artist (or even a good one!) but I am staggered to find I can now draw passable animals, flowers etc and am enjoying helping my grandchildren to discover their own abilities with some of the techniques from this book. So it's certainly worked for me and worth every penny.

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Miss Pierced Laura

Better than i expected!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 31 December 2019

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I bought for a friend who never learnt to draw and struggled how and where to start things.
This is a great book what nicly and correctly guide you your art journey! Evencould be useful someone who learnt to draw- never bad a little repeat! But great start for begginers too!
Useful!

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Shopaholic

No good for beginner artists

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 30 December 2018

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This book is no good for beginners as it jumps from drawing basic shapes to the finished drawing with limited explanations on how you draw it. Very disappointed.

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James Ashman

Bang on

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 14 March 2014

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Does exactly what it says on the tin. There is a lot of stuff in here that will keep you going whether you are a beginner like me, or someone who is more experienced. Definitely worth purchasing, even if you don't intend to improve. It's an interesting read on it's own.

My only issue is there isn't enough independent exercises for you to try out.

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CharFar

Great book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 24 April 2020

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This is a great book. There is so much in the book it really is a fantastic purchase. So much information and well laid out with examples. Really pleased that I purchased this for my husband, fantastic!

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DocC

Lived up to what I hoped for!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 1 December 2019

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I need all the help I can get re drawing. This book seems to be what I was looking for.

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Andrea Marley

Highly Recommend

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 26 September 2017

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Fantastic art book for beginner or advanced. This was a gift for a teenager and hes going to love it. Gives really good detailed pics of how to draw various things. A4 size and good book with many many pages of art drawings and ideas.

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A2014

Love it

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 22 October 2019

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Fabulous book with in depth information

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Thank you

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 14 January 2020

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Did not look properly because it was a Kindle Kindle and I have not got Kindle so don't know how to use it on my phone so that was a waste of time sorry about this

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