Lifelike Drawing With Lee Hammond

Lifelike Drawing With Lee Hammond
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How NOT to draw...

Basic techniques for drawing lifelike images

Love, Love, Love

MY FIRST LEE HAMMOND BOOK

Possibly Lee Hammond's best book

Lifelike Drawing With Lee Hammond
Lee Hammond
Manufacturer: North Light Books
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Binding: Paperback

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Book Description

Popular author Lee Hammond is the queen of drawing instruction. In this latest book, she shows readers exactly how to make their work more lifelike and realistic. Even complete beginners can get fast results with:

* An encouraging "You Can Do It!" section for new artists

* Concise step-by-step instructions and basic techniques

* Lessons for shading, drawing basic shapes and creating textures

* A variety of fun subject matter, including people, animals and everyday objects

All it takes to get started is a few simple, readily available materials. Readers can make their artistic dreams a reality right away!

Customer Reviews:

How NOT to draw..........2006-08-10

This book starts out with some good basic principles of drawing - basic shapes in 3 dimensions; lighting and understanding value correlations on objects.
Ms. Hammond's techniques and exercises are horrible. If you would like to develop bad drawing habits - this IS the book for you.
Hammond's technique (using a 2B mechanical pencil) is to build up value (4 levels), then smudge and smear your way to success. Any artist - in regards to beginning drawing/ technique - knows that 'smudge/smear' is a drawing anathema. This technique deprives the striving student the opportunities to develop skills in building value; understanding contour of objects as revealed by the play of light and shadow; cross hatching to develop drawings with greater depth, etc. .
Additionally, Ms. Hammond has absolutely no understanding of how to establish and use vanishing point/s in a drawing - a shortcoming she illustrates clearly.
This technique renders drawings that are flat, 'dirty looking' (due to the smudge technique), and lacking in depth, contrast, and appeal.

Basic techniques for drawing lifelike images.......2006-08-03

This was my first Lee Hammond book and not likely to be the last. I have found that this book is very easy to follow, and a must have for any aspiring artist who loves to draw! It has helped me greatly in understanding how to use drawing tools and whenever I draw from it, I have loved ones peering over my shoulder to see what I'm drawing and the ohhhs' and awwws really put a smile on my face. Not to mention the finished product of my drawing. I didn't even know that I had that much talent but this book helps to bring it out of me and onto paper!

Love, Love, Love.......2006-04-06

I've just recently received this and 2 other books by Lee and absolutly love all of them. I am currently working from this book and can't rave enough about it. Her techniques have been so helpful that she has a lifetime fan, and my library will soon contain any and all books she has or will ever publish. Thank you Lee for making my drawings come to life. I can't put my pencil down.

MY FIRST LEE HAMMOND BOOK.......2006-03-13

THIS BOOK NOT ONLY TEACHES HOW TO DRAW BUT HOW TO MAKE EVERYTHING LOOK REAL. EASY ILLISTRATIONS AND CLEAR LANGUAGE MADE THIS BOOK FUN.

Possibly Lee Hammond's best book.......2005-08-06

Even if you own Lee Hammond's other drawing books, there is still a wealth of information to be gained from this one! The author provides clear instructions on a variety of topics -- from drawing stunning glass objects to producing the most technical architecture renderings -- it's all here, in the unique Hammond style.

If I had to choose one drawing book to keep, out of my entire collection, it'd likely be this one. I'm thoroughly enjoying the reading of it and looking forward to practicing the many tutorials it offers.

I give it a resounding A+.

Jan

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Painting With Water-Soluble Colored Pencils

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Very Helpful
Excellent techniques
Painting with water-soluble colored pencils
Overall a great introduction to the medium
Lack luster book

Painting With Water-Soluble Colored Pencils
Gary Greene
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Book Description

As a teacher of colored pencil workshops, Gary Greene sees his students buying watercolor pencils "by the truckload." Problem is, they haven't known what to do with them--until now. In this much-requested book, Greene shows artists how to achieve a variety of different effects in this fascinating medium.

From loose, watercolor-like washes to precise airbrush looks, the author, along with six guest artists, shows readers how to master the medium in 18 complete painting demonstrations.

Customer Reviews:

Very Helpful.......2007-04-28

This is an excellent book for anyone wanting to learn the nuances of using watercolor pencils. The author's illustrations show the remarkable results that can be attained with this medium.

I especially want to comment on the series of cherries, which other reviewers have referred to. The cherries are the most useful and important part of the book, in my opinion, and the feature that distinguishes this book from others in this field. By repeating the same subject (the cherries) over and over, but as painted by different techniques, the author demonstrates the variety of achievable effects. I was surprised just how different each set of cherries looked when painted in the various techniques. Those demonstrations, along with other instruction in the book, make for valuable instruction. This is a great book for anyone who wants to become skilled in this medium.

Excellent techniques.......2007-04-08

I don't understand the complaint with the cherries by some of the other reviewers. Gary is just introducing the reader step-by-step to the techniques using cherrys as the example AT FIRST. There are 13 cherry techniques covered over 20 pages, but there are 128 pages in the book. Hmmmm, could there be more? WHY YES! As a matter of fact there is.

He then proceeds to use these techniques on other images that DO NOT repeat themselves. He covers stuff like portraits, animals, landscapes, textures, flowers and a bit of the abstract. There is a large variety. AND WAIT, theres more! He also demonstrates the varying techniques step-by-step with these other various non-repeating works of art! So, don't be fooled by the complaints about cherrys. It's just covered in Chapter 2 and then he goes into more depth in all the other chapters. (Chapter 1 is the usual materials tools and color charts.)

Okay, so it is not for beginners. You should know how to draw well, and be confident in your drawing. You know... be able to create the illusion of 3D on 2D. Or else you'll be one of those reviewers who says "I'm disapointed in this book, I expected more."

Painting with water-soluble colored pencils.......2007-01-04

This book was a gift so I have no knowledge of the contents other than that the gift recipient was pleased with the content and found it helpful in learning to paint with watercolors.

Overall a great introduction to the medium.......2006-03-25

As an experienced artist but a beginner in this particular medium, I found this book to be very informative. I noticed that some of the reviewers complained about the cherry paintings, but I found them to be quite helpful. I enjoyed seeing how one subject looked painted several different ways. Though some of the sample step-by-step paintings are pretty substandard, a few are quite good (such as the one of the three parrots). Though probably not the most inspiring art book in the world, this is the best book I have found as an introduction to water soluble colored pencils.

Lack luster book.......2000-04-11

I find it hard to explain why I was so disappointed in this book. Perhaps it is the redundancy of subjects(cherries), yet the cherry part was interesting in the fact that it compared a same subject with different techniques. Still it lacks something.

The other examples of pictures that were in the book were overwhelming for me. It is as if I were already expected to know how to draw the pictures. I did not find there to be enough step by step instruction.

I also have another book by Gary Greene- Textures. That book is far more inspiring and instructional than this one is.

This book just does not whet my appetite for watercolor pencils enough to make me want to race to my pencils and start drawing right away. Instead, it just makes me sigh, and put the tin away for yet another day.

This topic could be covered in a far more inspirational and effective way than was done in this book. And the examples should be more exciting and motivating than they are.

Painting Light With Colored Pencil
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Excellent condition and service

Informative

Very inspiring book!

Making it real--one artist's technique with colored pencils

good information on innovative techniques

Painting Light With Colored Pencil
Cecile Baird
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Capturing the elusive qualities of light is one of the most sought-after goals of artists in every medium, and Painting Light with Colored Pencil helps readers achieve that goal with:

-An overview of the basics of any work of art, such as composition, gathering reference material, value and color -Over 20 step-by-step lessons covering a variety of popular subjects, including fruit, flowers, textures and water -Two extended demonstrations that show readers how to combine the individual lessons to create a refined, detailed painting

Through the techniques explained in this book, readers will learn how to unlock the potential of colored pencils to create realistic, light-filled paintings that glow.

Customer Reviews:

Excellent condition and service.......2007-09-24

This product came exactly how it was presented-quickly and in great condition-couldn't be happier!

Thanks for the quick turn around-very pleased!

Informative.......2007-01-21

I found this book easy to understand. The color theory is very helpful. I would recommend it.

Very inspiring book!.......2006-11-05

Very happy with the purchase, so far it is my best book about colored pencils & techniques, easy-to-follow instructions, helpful tips, brilliant demonstrations to inspire begginers & more experienced artists alike.

Making it real--one artist's technique with colored pencils.......2006-10-11

This book is of somewhat limited use if you have anything other than ultra-realism on your mind. But having said that, Cecile Baird presents a flawless technique with colored pencils that will have your jaw dropping at her gorgeous work. This book is inspiring and there is plenty of eye-candy here to admire.

There are many demonstrations of example paintings, and some are quite stunning; water spilled on a tile counter, a bubbling, spurting fountain, translucent honeydew melon and kiwi, glistening shells, smooth crockery. Each texture is discussed and the technique of blending with a colorless pencil or with solvent is explained.

There is also a section on how to photograph your subjects (assuming you do still life a lot, which this artist favors as her subject matter.) There is a good discussion on how many pencils to buy (hint; start with the largest assortment you can find, 72 or more) --and she lists what colors of one particular brand she chooses for each demonstration. The materials needed such as stumps for blending, solvent, etc are covered well in the text.

The demonstrations are not as complete as a beginner would need, but a good artist can follow her progress from sketch to final work. Likewise, excellent draughtsmanship is required for this technique. If you do naif works, cartoons, abstracts, or other non-realistic, stylized techniques, this book is of limited value.

Therefore, I recommend this to people who want to work from photographs and obtain beautiful realistic results with colored penci.

good information on innovative techniques.......2005-06-12

I did enjoy the book and found it to be informative with good information of her wonderful and innovative techniques. I would have liked more definative instuctions on how "Shades of Green" was done, not just a small section on rendering Kiwi fruit. The beginning 50 or so pages were on information commonly found in any CP book and therefore of little value to me and perhaps to others who have a library of books already. But if you are a beginner with no books it would be of value to you.

Drawing and Painting with Colored Pencil: Basic Techniques for Mastering Traditional and Watersoluble Colored Pencils

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Be Advised it is much to do about Watersoluble Pencils....

Drawing and Painting with Colored Pencil: Basic Techniques for Mastering Traditional and Watersoluble Colored Pencils
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Great instruction and inspiring tips!.......2007-03-22

This is one of the "keepers". Kristy has done an excellent job here in not only instruction, but in very informative tips and techniques. Saves the new artist allot of time in getting right to the point and avoiding common mistakes. Kristy's book is highly recommended and I'd have given it more than 5 stars if I could have!

Drawing And Painting With Colored Pencil.......2006-11-06

Drawing And Painting With Colored Pencilery good reference book, I was very happy

A Waste of money and time.......2006-08-24

There are many other books available on this subject and they are all better than this one. There is nothing to be gained from reading this book. Forget it!

Stunning Examples.......2006-06-29

The illustrations for the techniques are Kutch's own colored pencil artwork. Her flowers are stunning and if I ever achieve a drawing on the level of her poppies or the morning glories, I'll be very happy.
Unfortunately, I struggled with some of the directions, bogging down over the art terms and special tools that I don't yet have. I think I'd benefit from rereading this book after I experiment more and stock in some of the supplies (special papers, ball burnisher, citrus thinner, etc.).
The techniques are shown in 5 or 6 steps with the illustration progressing as she describes the colors used. Most of the examples are flowers or fruit, but a few landscapes round it out.
The first 49 pages deal with regular colored pencils, then the rest of the book goes on to watercolor pencils and the techniques for those.

Be Advised it is much to do about Watersoluble Pencils...........2006-03-23

This is a wonderful book, don't get me wrong, however I expected it to relate more to colored pencils by themselves. The first section does, then it goes on to a much larger section on watersoluble pencils and the final section is devoted to using them in tandem. If you are interested in using them in tandem then by all means, this book should be on your shelf! The text is precise and easy to follow, the artwork is wonderful, to say the least.

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Not a First Art Book, But a Great First Colored Pencils Book

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Not a First Art Book, But a Great First Colored Pencils Book.......2005-09-26

An excellent small book, especially valuable because it teaches so much without costing a bundle. Fascinating section on learning to paint anything with just three colors and black: this is invaluable for outdoor sketching, when you don't want to take the time to find just that shade of green, and hauling all hundred colors would be a drag anyway.

This is meant for the person who can already draw or paint, but wishes to learn this particular medium.

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The good with the bad
Quite Helpful Book on Drawing with Colored Pencils

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Colored pencils offer aspiring artists a unique combination of creative versatility and precise control. This introductory course encompasses everything the budding and intermediate-level artist needs to get started right away: basic materials and tools; wet and dry techniques; the successful use of color, texture, and composition; the effect of perspective and depth on a drawing; maximizing a limited palette; and enhancing and burnishing colors. Sixteen skill-building projects and practical exercises are demonstrated through 150 color photographs, with detailed, expert instruction covering the four most commonly explored artists’ subjects: still life, landscape, people, and animals.

Customer Reviews:

The good with the bad.......2007-09-19

This is not really a book about "colored pencils," by which is usually meant Prismacolor wax pencils, or similar; it's a book about watercolor pencils, which are related, but not identical. Although some of the techniques are the same, the goals are different and the results, done well, aren't alike.

There is some good advice on technique here, but the example projects are uneven. Some of them are OK, some of them are quite nice, while others -- particularly the portraits -- well, not so much.

Finally, note that the topic of this book is not drawing per se, but painting or rendering: the author recommends in virtually every project that the reader start by tracing a source photograph.

Quite Helpful Book on Drawing with Colored Pencils.......2007-05-17

I picked up some good tips from reading this book. Now I'll tuck an emory board in with my pencils when I'm out drawing wild flowers, so I can sharpen the points of my pencils without having a pencil sharpener eat them up.
Even though I've read 3 or 4 books on using colored pencils, this helped me understand how to add burnishing with a white pencil and about shading and mixing colors. I have a better concept of using highlights, but still don't quite understand using perspective very well.
The main part of the book features sixteen demonstrations that show a finished drawing and the reference photo of the subject. Using eight steps, it shows the work in progress and gives instructions for achieving the finished drawing.
The topics covered in these demonstrations include four still lifes, four landscapes, four portraits and four animal drawings. This allows it to show a variety of techniques like monotone drawing, wax resist, and using layering to get the right strength of color. It gives tips for special effects for drawing fabric, fur, sand, etc. Using the pencils with water was explained and how to mix it with dry pencils.
The book ends with a gallery of eight inspiring drawings by top colored pencil artists.
I was quite pleased with this book.

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Drawing & Painting With Colored Pencils by Stefan Birker [Paperback]

Drawing & Painting With Colored Pencils
Stefan Birker
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Drawing & Painting With Colored Pencils by Stefan Birker [Paperback] .......2005-09-19

My complaint is with the Akron Public Library Bookstore who sold me this product. The condition of the book was outrageous. The book REEKED with cigarette smoke and it was damaged at the spine and written in. To add insult to injury, the book, which I paid shipping for came with postage due! I seem to recall having paid for shipping. I do understand that when you buy a book second hand you can expect some surprises. Here I went to Oz looking for the Wizard and found the bumbling old snake oil salesman. I will never order from this particular vendor again.

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Don't overlook this slim but power-packed art guide

Drawing with colored pencils
Morrell Wise
Manufacturer: Foster Art Service
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B00071C4GU

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Don't overlook this slim but power-packed art guide.......2006-11-25

Colored pencils are or used to be looked down upon by "serious" art people. Possibly the tendency of pencils to bloom with wax on the surface of burnished artwork or the sense that colored pencils were for holiday dabblers and children dragged them down. But today, artists make some completely amazing work with colored pencils.

There are a number of good books, but this slim volume has a lot of information and almost every page has two excellent colored photos illustrating work in progress.

The book covers layers, values, mixed media with colored pencil and other media like gray marker (to make grisaille, or a gray value sketch below a layer of pencil.) There is a section pencils with wash and pastels, too.

The techniques go from landscape to ultra-realism still life, to poster illustration. A list of materials needed is given as well as a description of how colored pencils apply to paper and the effect of layers on papers with texture.

In summary, a short but complete overview that would start any artist on the right foot doing colored pencil artwork.

Complete Guide to Anime Techniques: Create Mesmerizing Manga-style Animation with Pencils, Paint, and Pixels

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A top pick for any library where patrons favor anime discussions.

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Art students learn to reproduce the distinctive style and vibrant colors that characterize Japanese movie animation—or anime. The author explains every stage in the creative process, from storyboarding to preparing and distributing the finished movie or video. Step-by-step tutorials demonstrate fundamental skills, such as hand-painting characters and backgrounds on separate cel layers, working with 3D graphics, and using digital pen-and-tone techniques. Separate chapters focus on stylistic techniques, animation basics such as characters' movements and lip synching, application of styles that comprise fundamentals of animated visual grammar, and other vital topics for successful movie animation. This very useful manual features more than 400 instructive color illustrations.

Customer Reviews:

A top pick for any library where patrons favor anime discussions........2007-06-17

Japanese animation is an influential media style with bright colors and dramatic entertainment value, and any who would draw or create anime characters would do well to begin with The Complete Guide to Anime Techniques, which surveys the basics of artwork, working with 3-D graphics, and more. From creating the script to storyboarding to distributing a finished movie, this moves beyond the usual focus on drawing to embrace the whole of anime, and is a top pick for any library where patrons favor anime discussions.

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Creative Colored Pencil Workshop: 26 Exercises for Combining Colored Pencils with Your Favorite Mediums

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It is okay
Entering a competitive field
Beautiful Illustrations
Eye Opener

Creative Colored Pencil Workshop: 26 Exercises for Combining Colored Pencils with Your Favorite Mediums
Carlynne Hershberger , and Kelli Money Huff
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Take Your Colored Pencils Out of the Box . . . and Combine the Best of All Mediums!

Creative Colored Pencil Workshop is your guide to exploring a new world of artistic possibilities. Following clear, step-by-step demonstrations, you'll try your hand at a range of exciting techniques that blend colored pencils with all kinds of dynamic mediums, including:

Watercolor
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More than 25 fun projects show you how to use each medium successfully, while offering in-depth guidance for working with various papers, textures and surfaces. Best of all, this book features the insightful instruction of two accomplished artists who offer different yet effective approaches to colored pencil creations.

From highly realistic art to more abstract representations, you'll learn how each medium and technique can accommodate virtually any artistic style or subject. Creative Colored Pencil Workshop gives you the best of both worlds: the fluid spontaneity and speed of mixed media and the control and precision of colored pencils. Mix it up, and see what happens!

Customer Reviews:

It is okay.......2007-08-03

It is okay. It has a lot in it but it has not given me what I wanted. I like the way Ann Kullberg illustrates her books. She doesn't have mixed media but with colored pencil in itself she makes it very visible in what to do. This book is a good book but not as exciting as some others.

Entering a competitive field.......2007-08-03

I was disappointed in this book for two reasons. Firstly the mixed media exercises use other mediums more as underpainting than as combinations with colored pencil to create new effects. By comparison, see Mary Todd Beam's demonstrations with colored pencil in mixed media in "Celebrate Your Creative Self." The results from Hershberger and Huff still look like colored pencil, not mixed media. In my view, this means it misses out as a mixed media book. How does it fare, then, as a colored pencil book?

I find the end results of the exercises in this book rather flat compared to works by established colored pencil artists, and this is my second reason. The book begins with some promising ideas, but adding other mediums should enhance, not muddy the result as I feel they do here.

The colored pencial medium has burgeoned into an extremely professional field in the last ten years or so, and this makes it a highly competitive market where new publications are concerned. The authors of this book have hard acts to follow, and this inevitably affects any assessment of its merits. The competition includes artist/instructors like Cecile Baird, Bet Borgeson and particularly Ann Kullberg, arguably the best of all colored pencil artists.

In fact, on Kullberg's website, even unsuccessful entries in her 2007 juried competition have a "zing' that is somehow missing in the illustrations in this book. The explanation that clarity is inevitably lost in simplifying the step-by-step lessons may be fair enough, but I suggest you compare these instructions with those on the Kullberg website. Although using colored pencil alone, Kulberg's exercises nevertheless achieve radiant, light-filled results.

Perhaps minor quibbles, but the exercises are not numbered (for easy reference) and the number is incorrectly given as 52 in the subtitle on the cover.

'Creative Colored Pencil Workshop'is beautifully bound and the authors undoubtedly convey a passion for their medium, but I find that the book comes nowhere near the high standard of books by the artist/authors mentioned above. For the higher price, I really expected something more.

Beautiful Illustrations.......2007-05-25

Beautiful paintings by the authors and other artists strike a nice balance between a how-to book and a must-have for sheer enjoyment. I uploaded two images so you could see into the book.
Herschberger and Huff share their expertise on an expansive range of materials making this an excellent entry point for beginners and great fun for experimental artists. In one demonstration, or technically two I guess, they both paint from the same reference photo, but make entirely different painting choices. Witty humor highlights their rapport as the two artists work together and play off one another.
I particularly liked the silver leaf demonstration and how it was used in a realistic, not decorative, painting. Can't wait to try that!

Eye Opener.......2007-05-04

I always thought colored pencils were for the grandkids. Wow, I read the entire book in one sitting and I can't wait to try some of the new ways of using not only colored pencils, but other media. Thank you to the authors for opening my eyes to new things.

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