Drawing Mentor 11-13: Still Life, Landscape & Portrait Drawing

Volumes 11, 12 and 13 of the Drawing Mentor series are contained in this book. These are advanced lesson which use the skills you’ve developed in previous volumes to complete finished drawings. The subjects in this book include still life, landscape, and portraits. Each lesson explains what its genre is; some things to take into consideration when attempting a drawing in that genre, and then guides you through a step by step example to help you complete your own finished drawing. Each step is explained and detailed pictures provided to help you follow along. (Note: These lessons assume that you’ve already developed some basic fundamental drawing skills. Before attempting these lessons it is recommended that you first learn and understand sketching and layout, and how to apply tone, shading and highlights. If you have not developed these skills please refer to previous volumes.) The Drawing Mentor series of books is intended to help beginning to intermediate drawers learn and improve their drawing skills. With multiple books, each focusing on different aspects of drawing, it gives the reader the ability to pick and choose the lessons and skills they would like to learn. The earlier lessons in the series are very foundational, designed to improve the reader’s technical ability and understanding before going on to later lessons which are more project-based and written assuming technical skills have already been developed. If you’re an absolute beginner it’s recommended that you proceed from Volume 1 as that will ensure your understanding of how to use the techniques employed in later lessons. When you choose to purchase the Drawing Mentor books you will not only get a quality book that will help you improve your drawing skills you will also be helping someone else as well. 10% of all profits from these books are donated to organizations which give humanitarian assistance around the world