The Ultimate Guide to Drawing: Skills & Inspiration for Every Artist - Paperback

by Barrington Barber (Author)

Develop your drawing skills with this comprehensive 600+ page book, perfect for beginners and experts alike.

The Ultimate Guide to Drawing is perfect for aspiring artists or those looking to improve their technique, containing an array of useful exercises and step-by-step projects to follow.

Internationally bestselling practical art author Barrington Barber works through the key areas of drawing. Starting with the basics you will soon learn to draw more complex subjects, such as dynamic bodies in movement, the texture of silk robe or sunlight filtering through the trees.

Subjects include:
- Still life
- Portraiture
- Human figures
- Landscapes

Providing essential advice and tons of inspiration, this drawing book will help readers create complex and beautiful artwork.

Author Biography

Barrington Barber is the world's best-selling practical art author and a practising artist. He worked as an illustrator (Saxon Artist) and Graphic Designer, was Art Director at Ogilvie & Mather and S.H. Bensons, and then a lecturer in Graphic Design at Ealing Art School. He has also worked as a freelance designer, illustrator and animator and as a painter. He was awarded a one-man exhibition at St. Oswald Studios. His internationally best-selling books include The Fundamentals of Drawing Portraits and The Fundamentals of Drawing Still Life. He lives in Wimbledon, London.