/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

What order would you recommend reading these books in?

>>4768891

>>4710506
I'm not a fan of Hampton's book but maybe it will work for you. I strongly suggest you watch his lectures if you're going to follow his book.

>>4448586

>>4088652
well you can get a wacom intuos pro and if you are going fir other brands the x-pen's pen seems to be as accurate as the wacom and the durability of the tablet too, i dont have one tho, you can always make a thread to ask for recommendations, but the most important thing is to have a pen that is as accurate/sensitive as possible.

as for drawing, getting good at those aspects isn't actually hard but requires a fucking lot of studying and practice and here's where 90% of beginners fail because they either half ass the studies or they dont do it at all , if you want to get good be ready for a grindfest of boxes/shapes/references for months and thats what kills the begs doing this shit kills the motivation ofmany begs

And if you decided to start, go first with drawabox,com this shit will help you to see everything in 3d rather than 2d that is main problem with beginners then you can go with anatomy for sculptors or Hampton figure drawing then you move to perspective shit from there is just polishing

>>4047787
>never drawn before
>already has a tablet

you didn't even bother to find resources before for something that you will be invested over, yikes ngmi

>>3703134
>I have no idea how to grasp learning to draw
This is normal and I don't even know if there is a correct way to teach drawing because you need to learn a lot of things at once that necessetate each other so I guess no matter what you are going to be bumbling around a bit in the beginning, there is a list of essential books though.

I swear I looked through everything in the OP, every mega, every bin, every mediafire.

Jack Hamm's book? It's the only one I don't have.

>>3393688
Was it this one?

>>3393770
Another on the pile

>>3380430
I'll do you one better!

>>3282394
Dunno if you mean me, but I (and my friend who did the /gd/ work on this) are still alive. I'm not really sure where to take it though. Not the biggest fan of the Drawing Scenery book being in the list anymore but I don't know what to replace it with.

The criteria were always: beginner friendly, not dependent on any medium (So Guptill's pen book isn't going to make it in) or art niche (so something like "Understanding Comics" was considered no good because it's specific to comic making), a book not a video and practical

I would like to add some footnotes for alternatives though.

Could the residents of /artbook/ offer some feedback please?

>>3180820
You make a strong point. Since there's a spare spot open I think it's worth including a book that hits so many points: texture, composition, technique, etc.

I'll concede that tastes have changed, Blooks aren't quite as endearing as they were in the 50's. Still it's a style of construction focused on exaggeration and big shapes. And the main reason I think it's worth including is that I've yet to find a book about construction more beginner friendly, with no prerequisite skills or materials required besides paper and pencil. Something like Dynamic Sketching still puts perspective as a prerequisite.

As for now, here's chart for the tentative book list. Note the happy little clouds. Anyone, please air your thoughts and opinions. Also sorry if you wanted Jack Hamm's book on the top spots, it'd be prohibitively time consuming to shuffle everything around and it was a last minute addition.

(Note the chart was not made by me, it was made by a good friend who puts most of /gd/ to shame. I'll forward any changes to him as long as they're sane)