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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.

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350 pages
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English
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Arcturus
Publication date

16 January 2018
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89909 KB
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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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ASIN : B0791LVMCD
Publisher : Arcturus (16 January 2018)
Language : English
File size : 89909 KB
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Print length : 350 pages

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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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Saurabh mittal

Glitch

Reviewed in India on 4 November 2020

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I cant even read the book. Whenever i start it the bookmakes my kindle get stuck. Then i havve to restart it. After restarting also doesnt woork.

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Aditya kumar

Nice product

Reviewed in India on 18 August 2019

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Good

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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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JoMc

Not especially beginner-friendly

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 24 May 2020

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I expected more step by step for beginners tuition in this book but it’s lacking in that, and whilst it’s great to see what can be achieved (in the form of completed drawings) there’s nothing very much to show you how you reach that point which is disappointing.
Also, it’s a very heavy paperback book and it frustratingly won’t stay open so that you can refer to examples whilst you attempt to draw.

7 people found this helpful

Al: Ipsissima verba

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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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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