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Life Drawing: How To Portray The Figure With Accuracy And Expression
| Life Drawing: How To Portray The Figure With Accuracy And Expression |
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| Manufacturer: North Light Books |
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| Drawing people is more than just accurately capturing the anatomy and details of the subject. Artists that capture the soul of the model breathe life into the artwork by expressing a mood, idea or emotion that cannot be captured by accurate rendering alone. Life Drawing will give the reader all the tools necessary to draw people accurately and expressively, thus setting it apart from books that teach technique only. A variety of materials (nupastel, charcoal and graphite) will be used to give the intermediate artist a range of options to choose what works best for the subject of each drawing. |
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 British Review "Artist's and Illustrator's" |
| Review Date: October 31, 2008 |
| Reviewer: Erin Wall, Provo, Utah |
The following is a book review from the British publication "Artist's and Illustrator's" - July 2008
Life Drawing
Robert Barrett
Another month, another life drawing book. Thankfully, Robert Barrett has chosen to recreate his studio classes on paper, and in doing so offers a novel spin on well-worn subject matter.
The usual sections on useful materials, proportions and anatomy are all dealt with confidently but it is when he digs up less obvious considerations that this book really shines.
The chapter on hard and soft edges is worth the cover price alone. After showing how to delineate between subject and background with ease, Barrett's demonstration portrait then emerges from a charcoal haze over seven easy steps.
The book's tagline talks of portraying figures with "accuracy and expression" and by placing the emphasis on the latter quality, "Life Drawing" has resuscitated a tired book genre.
David & Charles |
Effective and useful
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| Review Date: November 1, 2008 |
| Reviewer: William Whitaker, Provo, UT |
Robert Barrett's wonderful book is playing a large and inspiring part in the educational program I run here at my studio. It is well organized and covers so many approaches with clarity and precision that I can think of no other single book on drawing the figure that is as effective overall. Bob writes well and draws even better.
William Whitaker
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The best book ever for Life Drawing
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| Review Date: June 26, 2009 |
| Reviewer: MattRink, California, USA |
| Life Drawing by Robert Barrett is a very good book for learning to draw from life. It has some refreshing and creative techniques to draw figure, which is very helpful. I have learned a great deal with it. The Nu pastel drawings are treat to the eyes.. This book goes beyond just graphite and charcoal, it goes with Nupastel as well and does a very good job of convincing a person to try doing it in that manner, if u havent tried drawing figure with Nupastel.. i absolutely love this book and highly recommend it to everyone! |
Best buy art instruction in figure drawing
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| Review Date: June 28, 2009 |
| Reviewer: Mokita, Pacific NW |
Barretts book on portraying the figure is the best one I have found so far (and I have been through most of them). Not that the others aren't good or that I would ever suggest anyone choose only one book as a guide. There are many different approaches to drawing the figure, and different people profit from different techniques.
This book integrated the methods I had learned from others in a way that worked for me. I got that breakthrough feeling the first time I tried it. As a companion book, I would recommend The Artists Complete Guide to Drawing the Head by William L. Maughan.
The Artist's Complete Guide to Drawing the Head |
Nice drawings and direction
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| Review Date: December 20, 2008 |
| Reviewer: Dharma Klock, |
| Good book to practice life drawings in. Excellent instruction or you can just try and copy the well drawn directions. |
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