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SECRETS OF DRAWING
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A huge, 96-paged exploration of Drawing techniques, and many
of these are so hush-hush you'll find them nowhere else!
But, you'll start to see--and think--about Drawing in new ways!
Secrets of Drawing is a little expensive, but if you're serious about Art can you
afford NOT to have it?
Read a review by noted Disney Animator Will Finn
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UNSOLICITED COMMENTS ON SECRETS OF DRAWING
I've read a lot of anatomy books, Bridgeman, Loomis, Hogarth, etc. but I think the Holy Grail just might be SECRETS OF DRAWING, a new book by fantasy and comics artist Mike Hoffman.
This is a slender and simply-written book full of easy-to-understand practical tips that are as eye-opening as they are essential. In addition, the drawings are undeniably solid, loaded with life and appeal. The illustrations highlight as clearly as possible each tip and the plain-spoken text reinforces the art as clearly and concisely as anything I have read. Many books contain either one or the other (as in good tips/mediocre art or great art/vague text)--this book is hits a bull's eye for both targets. I've taken many good figure drawing classes and learned much from instructors, but this book broke through decades of problem areas in figure drawing for me that no amount of practice or study has to date.
Quick gesture drawings have always come easily to me, but in fine-tuning an image I have often got lost or fouled up by innate misunderstanding of an inherent form or concept. Not even knowing exactly why makes it even harder to correct. This is the book that nailed some simple but universal "rules of thumb" for solving those errors. Though I am not an aficianado of comics, I looked up checked out the artist's website and highly recommend it. I'd call the book a must-buy and the price is highly affordable.
Will Finn, Disney Animator
...After merely glancing through your book for a few minutes, I sorta wish I had something like it 20 years ago. At first glance many of your "tips" seem a simple and obvious, but they're like Charles Shultz' seemingly simple cartooning style, deceptively simple and infinitely expressive. My favorite tip of yours is so far is "Draw the destination first," and something I'd only learned recently from Glenn Vilppu's anatomy DVDs after having spent several hundred dollars on them. Yes, quite a bit of the information can be found in other how-to-draw books, and I own most of them (Loomis, Hamm, Vilppu, Goldberg, Hogarth, Hampton, Howe, Bridgeman), but that's my point, all the important necessary information an artist needs is available in one simple slim volume. All I can really say is, thank you, Mike, this is an amazing book!
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