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The useful
How To Draw series' latest title shows you how to draw
a perennially popular subject, garden flowers.
This
series of primers shows you how to draw a set of about twenty-eight
related pictures in about eight stages. It starts with the
simplest lines and shapes and progresses by showing each new
stage with the pervious lines in one color and the new lines
in another for ease of understanding. showing what has been
added to the drawing in a different color. The last two pictures
show a tonal image in pencil and another image painted in
watercolors. Few words are needed with this approach and they
are all on one page in the form of an introduction, along
with a list of the flowers chosen. As with many of the titles
in this series, there is a great leap between the simple line
drawing and the tonal image, and I would recommend this book
primarily to those who can already draw but want to have a
go at a new subject. There is a good range of flowers chosen
from the invariable rose, lily and magnolia to the more unusual
corncockle, globe flower and frangipani. This is a little
like the way I learned to draw from the Walter Foster series
and will take budding artists quite far, especially used in
conjunction with other Search Press books on basic drawing
skills.
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