You Can Sketch: A Step by Step Guide for Absolute Beginners

You Can Sketch: A Step by Step Guide for Absolute Beginners

You Can Sketch: A Step by Step Guide for Absolute Beginners

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Book Description
Absolute Beginners guides represent a fresh new series of drawing and painting books for budding artists written by professional artist/ teachers. In You Can Sketch, master artist Jackie Simmonds leads the novice by the hand, demonstrating dozens of step-by-step, easy-to-follow techniques using a variety of sketching media. Over 100 clear, full-color illustrations show readers how to sketch the separate elements of simple still life and landscape subjects one by one in pencil, charcoal, colored pencil, pastel pencil, and Conté crayon. Explicit instructions demonstrate how easy it is to combine these different elements to make a finished picture. With You Can Sketch, even the most hesitant artists will gain confidence and start sketching fast!

About the Author
Jackie Simmonds's artwork appears in galleries in London and throughout the UK. She writes for The Artist magazine and has written several books on art techniques. She lives in London, England.

You Can Sketch: A Step by Step Guide for Absolute Beginners,Jackie Simmonds,Watson-Guptill Publications,0823059928,Art,Art & Art Instruction,Drawing,Sketching,Study & Teaching,Technique,Techniques - Drawing,Techniques - General

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