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How to Draw What You See Paperback – Deluxe Edition, September 1, 1996

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The 35th anniversary edition of the classic how-to book that has helped millions of artists learn to draw.

When it was originally published in 1970, How to Draw What You See zoomed to the top of Watson-Guptill’s best-seller list—and it has remained there ever since. “I believe that you must be able to draw things as you see them—realistically,” wrote Rudy de Reyna in his introduction.

Today, generations of artists have learned to draw what they see, to truly capture the world around them, using de Reyna’s methods. How to Draw What You See shows artists how to recognize the basic shape of an object—cube, cylinder, cone, or sphere—and use that shape to draw the object, no matter how much detail it contains.

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178 pages
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English
Publisher

Watson-Guptill
Publication date

September 1, 1996
Dimensions

7.1 x 0.6 x 10 inches
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0823023753
ISBN-13

978-0823023752
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Customers find the book very informative and basic, with excellent drawing examples. Opinions are mixed on the illustrations, with some finding them excellent and traditional, while others say they're traditional and staid.

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112 customers mention "Complexity level"97 positive15 negative

Customers find the book basic, easy to follow and understand, with clear drawings and explanations of the fundamentals. They also say it progresses well for new artists and is well written.

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"...30 projects including some using multimedia. Simple to follow. Perfect examples and simple instructions! Can't wait to dive in...." Read more

"Pros: Extensive information on the basics of art: overlapping, placement, size, shading, perspective, good exercises, etc,...." Read more

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43 customers mention "Content"36 positive7 negative

Customers find the book very informative, practical, and helpful. They say it helps with perspective and disappearing vanishing points.

"The information in this book is valid, but too brief for beginners and too elemental for serious artists...." Read more

"...If you're starting out, this book will help you a lot as well as lots of practice." Read more

"...However, I have been using it, and I have found it to be a great resource that I'm happy to have added to my art book collection...." Read more

"...There are lessons in perspective, landscapes, figures and more. The only part of the book I thought was lacking was figure drawing...." Read more

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Customers find the book useful for all ages, and a perfect companion to the class. They also say it's good for someone just starting out.

"...I think it would be helpful and useful for all ages. I highly recommend this book!" Read more

"Great for children 10 and up and for adults as well. One downfall for children, has one section of how to draw a nude woman in detail...." Read more

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Customers have mixed opinions about the illustrations in the book. Some find them excellent, practical, and not artsy. They also say the book is a great asset to an artist's collection, and simple to follow. However, others say the pictures are somewhat traditional and staid, and the book lacks figure drawing.

"...30 projects including some using multimedia. Simple to follow. Perfect examples and simple instructions! Can't wait to dive in...." Read more

"...Cons: A lot of texts very little images and pictures...." Read more

"...one concept that is reinforced with the author's many excellent drawing examples...." Read more

"...The only part of the book I thought was lacking was figure drawing. Overall, the information is helpful." Read more

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Customers find the book terribly dated.

"...However, I didn't bargain on the fact that it would be terribly dated--all of the drawings and designs are from when the book was originally..." Read more

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"Some of the subjects are old (like an out-dated T.V.), but I found the instructions to be great...." Read more

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Just as advertised.

Reviewed in the United States on June 19, 2024

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Well written..

Great book! For learning and practice. Any level.

Reviewed in the United States on April 22, 2024

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Just what I wanted and needed! 30 projects including some using multimedia. Simple to follow. Perfect examples and simple instructions! Can't wait to dive in. Got a used copy that only has minimal wear.

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Detailed information about the basics of art and drawing

Reviewed in the United States on July 31, 2020

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Pros: Extensive information on the basics of art: overlapping, placement, size, shading, perspective, good exercises, etc,.
Cons: A lot of texts very little images and pictures.

Overall, a good choice for those who enjoys reading, but lacks images that goes along with some of the important info and explanation.

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THIS is the only drawing book you will ever need ..

Reviewed in the United States on April 10, 2024

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Well, maybe a few others but this is the one you start with and refer to over and over again. It's incredible. Just buy it :-)

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Helpful art book

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Reviewed in the United States on June 20, 2016

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First published in 1970, this book has become a classic! A book like this will not remain in print for 46 years unless it has extreme value.

As the title suggests, it teaches everything an artist needs to know to learn to draw accurately and realistically. The author's premise is that no matter what style or medium is used by the artist, it is first necessary to learn to draw realistically and accurately. He then does an excellent job of teaching the artist to do just that!

He begins simply. The first lesson is how to draw a straight line freehand. Then he teaches how to draw the basic forms that all objects are based on and later shows how to utilize those forms to draw anything you can see.

Perspective, light and shade, values, perspective, composition are all essential topics that are clearly taught with assigned exercises to practice on. Any subject, from landscapes to still lifes, portraits and figurative studies is taught. The best thing about this method is that all you really need to start with is a #2 pencil and a sheet of paper.

All the drawings in the book are in black and white as well as the values in between. He starts with the #2 pencil but than proceeds to cover charcoal,mwatercolor washes, opaque (gouache) washes, acrylic, and ink. Thenaddition of liquid mediums is a feature that I have notmseen in other books on drawing but it makes for a very helpful transition to painting in color.

Most art books seem to contain very few essential concepts or techniques and then simply use a lot of space explaining and expanding on them. In other words, most other art books have a lot of "filler". This book is different in that it covers each concept clearly and concisely so that more comcepts and techniques can be covered. A lot of concentrated teaching that the student soends time practicing. This make the book a great value! It truly covers everything needed to learn to draw what you see.

This is appropriate for beginners as well as experienced artists. An outstanding art book!

166 people found this helpful

Reviewed in the United States on September 3, 2023

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This goes from the beginning of drawing and progresses well for the new artist.

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Not for the beginner

Reviewed in the United States on July 10, 2019

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The information in this book is valid, but too brief for beginners and too elemental for serious artists. Still, it might help some beginners to drawing principles.

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Anne Marie Hofer

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Reviewed in Canada on February 5, 2021

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I wanted a reference book and that's exactly what I got. The delivery time was excellent for the Covid times.

Silvia Friedrich

Good for beginner and advanced drawing

Reviewed in Germany on March 29, 2021

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Nice directions, really good to follow.

Martine

Très bon livre pour débuter

Reviewed in France on December 10, 2018

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Pour débuter je recommande ce livre

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Hannan

Good product

Reviewed in India on September 25, 2018

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Very helpful book. Love it even though I know few things before but still very good guide and exsersises.

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A classic, best selling work on realism that covers a lot of topics well.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 10, 2018

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When I was a student I had several books by Rudy de Reyna and gained some unusual techniques from them that have been extremely useful over the intervening decades. However an awful lot of what he was trying to teach went completely over my head and my original books were lent out and never came back. I recently replaced one of them on a whim and enjoyed it so much that I have been gradually re accumulating all of them. On re-acquiring this one I realised how so many of Reyna's ideas have been adopted by others to become the accepted way of tackling drawing and how his demystifying of forms has become mainstream knowledge, rather than the revolutionary approach it once was. Bearing this in mind, I did enjoy the warmth and good nature of the author. My attitude is that if I come to the end of a book inspired to try out a few new techniques or having discovered the solution to a problem that has always irked me, that has been worth the price of the book to me. (Even on a quick flick through the half-remembered text of this one I have already found him addressing and solving a couple of my constant bugbears.)
These days I am more interested in the third of the book that concerns painting but am quite happy to go back to the basics of drawing with De Reyna too . There is always something to learn and his explanation of perspective is one of the clearest and least confusing that I have found. For what it's worth, I still feel De Reyna's books are not suitable for complete beginners. (A beginner will need to glean what you can from it and then put it away for later. ) I feel that they were aimed at students who were already rigorously schooled in sketching and drawing and were wanting to advance to a career in illustration. However I don't see this as a big deal since no one book is going to give you everything you need.
One of my favourite teaching painters is marvellous at everything except skies, another does superb skies but unconvincing figures and one who is good at nearly everything uses a colour palette that I dislike, so I have tried to learn from the areas I believe that they excel at and disregard the rest. Being a painter means being an eternal student as there will always be struggles and failures along the way which teach you a lot (and gives you plenty of scrap paper to doodle on the back of.)
The materials De Reyna suggests need to be changed to more modern alternatives like multi-media paper and Bristol Board and you dont have to follow this book slavishly in method or materials. (I think I originally lost interest when it came to exercises using charcoal which I have never liked using due to fixative allergy, and it never occurred to me to use something else. ) His approach of sorting out all the problems of tone, shape, composition and perspective before you even think of using colour in a painting is one that has stayed with me though and has prevented a lot of frustration and false starts. As far as I am concerned anything that shows the work underlying a piece should be lauded and encouraged as it dispels the idea painters have had a magic wand waved over them in the cradle.
I do recommend this book as a classic work of commonsensical instruction in realism that covers a lot of useful topics.

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