Foolproof Sketching & Painting Techniques for Beginners: For Pencil, Pen and Watercolors (with over 400 illustrations)

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An inspiring guide to sketching and painting the world around you!

Packed with practical tips and advice, this book shows you how to fill your sketchbook or watercolor pad with a variety of everyday items that catch your eye, such as:

Kitchen items like cups, teapots and silverwareToys like Rubik’s Cubes and model carsTea sandwiches and roll cakesColorful bottles and containersHousehold items like umbrellas, bottles and candlesClothing and acessories including shirts, hats and umbrellasAnd so much more!
Author Tomoko Kuramae provides clear step-by-step instructions on the proportions and perspective of basic objects and clearly explains how to draw dozens of items based on cubes, cylinders and flat shapes from a variety of angles. She then shows you how to bring your finished sketches alive with the use of brilliant transparent watercolors.

From the Publisher

If you find something you want to draw, don’t hold back—just draw it! A world of creative fun is waiting for you.

Tomoko Kuramae is here to tell you, you can do it! With the right clues, tips, and guidance you will be able to draw what you see the way you see it!

Identify a few key points, master the basic box and cylinder shapes, and soon you can combine all of your skills to draw anything you can imagine!

What is the basic shape? Where is the center? Where are lines parallel, and where are they perpendicular?What about the sense of depth?Where is the light coming from?

Drawing Objects with a Box Shape

Drawing Objects with Cylinders

Drawing Flat Objects

Additional features of FOOLPROOF SKETCHING & PAINTING FOR BEGINNERS:

Planning Your Sketch with Shapes

Includes a review of basic watercolor composition techniques, as well as thorough breakdowns of using simple base shapes to draw objects.

Understanding Perspective & Shadows

Each tutorial includes a breakdown of drawing within 2- and 3-point perspectives, advice for altering perspective, and key tips to help your drawings maintain proportions authenticity.

Painting Tips

In addition to the main lessons there is a section at the end for using watercolor paints, taking care of your brushes, paints, and palettes, and advice for mixing colors and creating swatches.

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Tuttle Publishing; Illustrated edition (April 11, 2023)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 96 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0804856222
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0804856225
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.62 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.25 x 0.5 x 11.25 inches