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How To Draw Series
Denis John-Naylor
Search Press
r18 June 2011 / 9781844483730
How To / Art / Drawing
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Reviewed
by Rachel A Hyde
If you draw landscapes or anything with an outdoors background,
you are sure to want to include trees. This latest entry in Search
Press’ popular “How To Draw” series shows you
how to draw them.
Not only trees, either, but features of them such as bark, roots,
leaves, cones and a stump. Choose from a variety of different shapes
such as oak, laburnum, Lombardy poplar, Jeffrey pine and wellingtonia
(no palms, rather oddly). They are shown in spring laden with blossom,
in full leaf in winter, displaying autumn tints and bare in winter.
As with all the titles in this series, the author devotes one page
at the front of the book to tell you how to use the book. This is
where you find the all-important index, for there is no identification
on the pages themselves. Each page has a tree or some aspects of
one rendered down to five stages. This takes the beginner artist
from a rough outline through to an outline sketch, which is filled
in first with pencil and finally in color using acrylics. The first
five steps are easy to tackle and take much of the mystery out of
what most people will agree is a tricky subject; but I would personally
like to see more stages, at least one showing how the color was
added. I can see that this would make for a bigger, more expensive
book, so perhaps part of the learning curve is tackling this part
on one’s own. This is one of the best entries in this useful
series, and destined for my own keeper shelf.
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