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What 4 drawing books do you think are the best?

>> No.6083188

none. start drawing, stop reading.

>> No.6083203

>>6083176
all equally good if you learn on your own

>> No.6083219

>>6083176
>3 Loomis and 1 vilppu
They’re all good books but a weird list to limit yourself too

>> No.6083541

>Vilppu drawing manual
>Ernest Watson’s Creative Perspective
>Gottfred Bammes Anatomy
>Arthur Guptill’s “Rendering in Pen and Ink”

>> No.6083792

>>6083176
> How to Draw & How to Render by Scott Robertson
> Drawing Manual from Glenn Vilppu
> The Weatherly Guide to Drawing Animals by Joe Watherly
> Color and Light and Imaginative Realism from James Gurney

These are just 4 books, think of them as volume 1 and 2 of the same book.

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>>6083176
that loomis one

>> No.6083916

>>6083176
Individually, or together as a combination?
Best for what ends?

>Charles Bargue - Drawing Course
>Martin Kemp - The Science of Art
>Daniel Parkhurst - The Painter in Oil
>James Gurney - Color and Light

Is a good combo if you want to do fine art. Most of them are terrible if you want to draw capeshit or weebshit. I guess technically they're not all for drawing, but fuck you that's what. I guess if we'd be looking at drawing only:

>Charles Bargue - Drawing Course
Grind accuracy and values. They're important fundies no matter what you want to draw.
>George Bridgman - Complete Guide to Drawing from Life
The text is actually pretty shit. Just copy everything so you get a gist of how human bodies behave.
>Michael Hampton - Figure Drawing: Design and Invention
The first point at which you actually begin to understand what is going on.
>Scott Robertson - How to Draw
Cap it off with undiluted art autism for non-human things.

You should be ready to tackle about any subject now. Go and pick artists you like and copy them to develop your own style.

>> No.6083969

Not OP but is 'Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain' any good for an aspiring beginner that doesn't know where to begin?

>> No.6084210

>>6083969
it's okay, kinda annoying though the way she writes and explains stuff. I think Keys to Drawing is much better and the perfect beginner drawing book. then move on to Successful Drawing by Loomis book then whatever the fuck you want and you'll be good to fucking go any direction you want.

>> No.6084337

>>6083969

as the other anon said it, Keys to Drawing by Bert Dodson is better for begginers because it manages to convey almost all the problems presented in Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain and it's solutions in a simple way

but if you want to understand the "flow" or concentration process of drawing, in my eyes it is worth giving it a try

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>>6083176 I don't know about the best, but these were the ones that helped me the most:
Fun with a Pencil - Andrew Loomis
Constructive Anatomy - George Bridgman
Dynamic Figures - Burne Hogarth
Color and Light - James Gurney
In that order. I also supplemented with 100 Hands - GB and Wrinkles and Drapery - BH.

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>>6083176
>What 4 drawing books do you think are the best?

Either picrel or Christopher Hart zillion books

>> No.6084579

>>6083176
The one where you draw 20s cartoons and the one where you learn how to create a mess of boxes and spheres resembling a human figure and move it like a robot.

>> No.6085713

>>6083916
>The text is actually pretty shit
No it's not, you're probably too dumb to understand it

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>>6085713
Like 90% of the instructional material in the text is literally just repeats of what you can see in an image right next to it. The remaining 10% is likening human anatomy to architectural mouldings that literally no one is familiar with, and would gain no insight from unless their entire porn stash was about architectural mouldings they jerk off to daily and have memorized the shapes of.

Just make an anki deck of the muscles, bones, and tendons to memorize them and Bridgman's text gives you literally nothing. Unless you consider musings such as picture related particularly meaningful. To each their own, I guess.