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Draw Your Own Celtic Designs

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This is a handsome volume with not just exciting step by step guides to drawing Celtic designs but also some wonderful photographs of carvings, illustrated manuscripts, etc., and fascinating text by David James of the history of the Celts and their art. I've never seen a book quite like this - it really gives one an incentive to try the knots, spirals, birds and other designs. Vitor Gonzalez' art work is always magnificent.

This book provides the building blocks to eventually create your own orignal Celtic designs. Each chapter covers a different motif (knotwork, spirals, key-patterns) and includes several projects beginning with a simple one designed to teach the basics and then further projects applying those basics and increasing in difficulty. Expect to put in your fair share of elbow-grease and practice, especially in the more difficult projects, but in my own case I was able to compose a simple yet elegant design the day I received the book. Definately worth the price if you are serious about learning this form of artwork.

This book is attractively done and contains a number of photographs of actual Celtic work which is helpful. The book contains chapters on Knots, Spirals, Key Patterns, Animals and Beasts, and Celtic Lettering. All of these chapters are well done and would probably be helpful and interesting to even those who who have experience with the subject...with the exception of one chapter.

The chapter on knots, the chapter that many readers will be most interested in, is (in my view) not as good as the other sections of this book. David James uses a grid system which seems a little more complex than some other grid systems, and that grid system is presented with little explanation of how it works in the drawing of Celtic knots. Also the use of 'break lines' is introduced without explanation of why they are important, or how they function. Because of that, beginners may find it difficult to distinguish between the line of the knot and the break lines that control the configuration of the knot.

It really is a good book, but those who have a particular interest in the drawing of knots might need to supplement this book with another on that subject.

This book not only shows/teaches you how to draw celtic designs, but it also gives a little background history on the who/what/where/when/why of celtic artwork and designs. It doesn't go into so much detail that you get bored, tho, which is nice. The instructions for how to draw celtic knots and designs are in "stages". It's like looking at any typical "How To Draw ____" kind of book. I found this book to be helpful, informative, and easy to follow.

Really good book for the beginning Celtic artist or tattoo artist. My bonus son likes to use this book for tattoo inspiration.

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