How to draw and think like a true artist: A 30-day Drawing Guide - From the Fundamentals to Step-by-Step Instructions with Detailed Illustrations and Comprehensive Explanations

Got this as a gift for a tween/teen who is interested in starting to try and draw more realistically. She liked it a lot!

My son loves that it’s very simple to understand and use. It gives very clear and step by step instructions. Perfect for a beginner artist!

I highly recommend this book It's everything I wanted in drawing I recommend buying ITIT will not regret I recommend buying it you will not regret it

It is a wonderful snapshot of a drawing course. I would have liked to seen more on how to do perspective shadows. I would buy this again.

I ordered this as a gift and the artist I bought is for really likes it. It offers suggestions and ideas.

My husband wanted to learn to draw. Uses this book to teach himself. Very happy with it.

I bought this book when I retired to learn how to draw. I found it a great place to start.

I have a shelf full of drawing books, and many say they are for beginners—this book actually is. It truly offers step-by-step instructions with plenty of examples and explanations for learning how to create real-to-life drawings. One feature I like most is the focus on basic techniques such as shading, constructing basic shapes, and creating 3D shapes. All books discuss these key principles, but How to Draw and Think Like a True Artist gives extensive examples and practice exercises that are lacking in every other beginner drawing book I own. The 30-day format is a good way of organizing the material to be learned, but it improves on other books by making the drawing examples progressively more difficult—going from simple shapes to portraits. Here again, How to Draw and Think Like a True Artist is a major improvement over other beginner books I own because the how-to examples extend over multiple pages with detailed steps, not just a few skeleton sketches and then the final polished product. The author has put a lot of thought into creating the examples and explaining the techniques used for creating the final realistic drawing. Out of the 29 drawing books I’ve bought, these are the books I have found to be most helpful so far: For basic instruction1. How to Draw and Think Like a True Artist— Gives a daily routine that goes from simple to complex. This has been the best book to get me drawing daily and making steady progress. I spend more than one day on each lesson, though. For practice1. Draw Like an Artist: 100 Flowers and Plants —has plenty of practice drawings to try.2. The Artist’s Complete Book of Drawing Projects, Step-by-Step—steps are not nearly as detailed as they are in How to Draw and Think Like a True Artist, but the projects are decent. The projects in this book are best attempted after finishing the 30 days of How to Draw and Think Like a True Artist.