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Notes to Draw From, Vol. 1: Comic Book Illustration

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This one is a keeper. For those of you who love comic book illustration this one shows you forced perspective and how to draw the human form for comics. It's a medium that gets no respect. Yet it requires it's illustrators to be very dynamic and inventive to keep a readers attention. This one shows you how dramatically light your characters and backgrounds. The amount of technical skill that is needed to draw a comic is more than good looking pinups. I hope there are more books from these authors. It's a step in the right direction with the flood of how to draw books. This one tells you something about making good comics.

An actual comic artist suggested that I read this book to help with my current struggle of discovering my own style and becoming an overall better artist. Mitch's drawings are quite unique and he uses just the amount of words to get his message across about the importance of using certain technique's. There's nothing OVERLY detailed, but if you really want to learn, you'll see the point he's trying to get across and learn from it.

Very good illustrations on every page of this book.

Mitch Byrd has always been one of my absolute favorite illustrator/artists. His characters have a visual depth that few other artists can achieve, even when they're unrendered line drawings. This book is full of tips on how he gets that look, but it's worth buying just to flip through and marvel at his sketches.