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Title: The Natural Way to Draw : A Working Plan for Art Study by Kimon Nicolaides ISBN: 0395530075 Publisher: Mariner Books Pub. Date: February, 1990 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.67
Rating: 5
Summary: THE Book for Serious Drawing
Comment: I bought this book in 1972 (hard cover). Glad to see it's still in print. If you have some talent, and are willing to put in the work to fulfill the lessons in this book, you can learn to draw as well as ANYONE, and drawing will never be a limiting factor in your creative process. Better stock up on cheap paper, because you will end up with a stack about 6' high. But you will never forget what you learn here. Thanks to Mr Nicolaides!! Note: I didn't have models available for all the exercises, so I just went out to a place where there were a lot of people and drew them. You can adapt the lessons to your circumstances. I completed the course, working 6 hours a day for 6 months. I still use the book when I want to sharpen up some of my skills.
Rating: 5
Summary: If you can only buy one art book, buy this!
Comment: The book was published posthumously in 1941 by Nicolaides' students. Their ferver for their late revered teacher is evident in the manner in which the book is written. They developed a rigorous lesson schedule which demands consistent attention of the artist.
I first read The Natural Way to Draw in 1983. In January of 1985 I began a self study course using this book as my guide. I followed every lesson plan and read and re-read until I could recite the book by heart. Too broke to afford a nude model for the lesson plans, I drew my neighbors chickens, cows, horses and sheep, supplementing those subjects with weekly attendance at a drawing group and borrowing the local science teachers human skeleton. Whatever the subject matter, Niccolaides taught me to understand the essence of gesture. A little over a year and a half later, I finished the book. I went on to earn a college degree (BFA)in Painting and to become a professional artist. When I look back at the past 18 years of my life as an artist,this book had the most influence of any that I have ever read or worked with. I highly reccomend not just reading this book, but studying it. Devote a year of your life to studying this book and you will be a better artist.
Rating: 5
Summary: For the motivated student
Comment: "The Natural Way to Draw" is not an easy book. Mr. Nicolaides does not provide any shortcuts to mastery. He does, however, show the reader how much work it takes to start learning. In Mr. Nikolaides' words: "The job of the teacher,... is to teach students, not how to draw, how to learn to draw."
The philosophy is best reflected in the exercises: Each of the 25 sections contain a 15 hour work schedule. That's 375 hours. In addition, Mr. Nicolaides points out certain exercises, estimated at five to ten minutes, he expects the student to go through every day.
The exersises are of the "artistic" kind. It is nothing like the outlines and negative shapes one see in other books, what little mention there is about materials is almost obsolete; what matters is communication. The term "gesture" is used extensively throughout the book: "You should draw, not what the thing looks like, not even what it is, but what it is /doing/" (p. 15).
Later, the student is asked to draw "weigt", i.e. to convey in a similar way, onto paper how heavy an object is. After that, the student is asked to try to capture poses of people he or she sees in streets, malls etc.
All such concepts are enforced in terms of exercises. There is large variation between long exercises, lasting for hours, and short ones, where the student is expected to make one drawing per minute for half an hour.
To me, the value of this book is in the exercises. The text only motivates, explains what should be achieved by the exercise. The exercises are also described by text, so they are demanding in that the student needs to think through what is expected, in a different way than if the ecersise was illustrated in terms of demonstrations and images. To me, this adds to the value of the book. I liked the many, short exercises wery well. For several years I have carried a small drawing pad and a couple of pencils with me, wherever I went. Mr. Nicolaides has shown me what to look for, what to try to get on the paper, when I sit at airports and cafes, and scribble away.
The highly motivated student will find this book indispensable.
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Title: The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain by Betty Edwards ISBN: 0874774241 Publisher: J. P. Tarcher Pub. Date: September, 1999 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain Workbook: Guided Practice in the Five Basic Skills of Drawing by Betty Edwards ISBN: 1585421952 Publisher: J. P. Tarcher Pub. Date: 10 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Keys to Drawing by Bert Dodson ISBN: 0891343377 Publisher: North Light Books Pub. Date: August, 1990 List Price(USD): $22.99 |
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Title: Drawing on the Artist Within by Betty Edwards ISBN: 067163514X Publisher: Fireside Pub. Date: April, 1987 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Drawing Realistic Textures in Pencil by J. D. Hillberry ISBN: 0891348689 Publisher: North Light Books Pub. Date: March, 1999 List Price(USD): $24.99 |
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