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Drawing Step-by-Step

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This book is quite a gem!!! The drawings are a little "crummy" @ times, but what it TEACHES is priceless! Stuff your 8th grade teacher, or 12 grade teacher seems to have "forgotten" to teach you!!!

One of the reasons I like this book is the excellent reference drawings it provides. These are almost all by other, well accomplished artists, rather than being a star vehicle for the author's personal style, as so many other books in this genre seem to be. Very beautiful examples of drawing by Rembrandt, Dürer, Van Gough, support the student's discovery of their own individual "voice" in articulating the visual world of nature, perspective, the human form, texture, etc.

The author is somewhat opinionated, but it's clear this derives from a lifetime's passionate involvement in selfless discovery of the surrounding world. He systematically encourages the student to assimilate and metabolize the complete three-dimensional structure of a subject before attempting the distillation of form to the paper plane. A wonderful vacation companion.

Gerhard Gollwitzer's "Drawing Step By Step" is small in format, and therefore handy to carry. The cover price is low, so that's a plus; but it seems a rather rambling and confused introduction to drawing for beginners.

Some of the basics are there, but then, gee whiz, it's beginning to look like "Well...who hasn't published a HOW-TO-DRAW book?" Besides, this one is so dry and boring. I think that it would be of interest to people that like to watch the dryer-go-round, but ....seriously... It's just a clone of other, equally basic, yet poorly presented HOW-TO material. Was this book desperately needed? It certainly will not be replacing many of the other basic drawing books already in print.