Key to Drawing with Imagination
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2006
North Light Books (Verlag)
978-1-58180-757-8 (ISBN)
North Light Books (Verlag)
978-1-58180-757-8 (ISBN)
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Every artist wants to be more creative. This book contains over forty exercises to help readers unlock the power of the imagination. It aids artists learn how to recycle old drawings into fresh ideas and discover new ways of working that free their creativity.
Draw with Confidence and Creativity! Creativity occurs in action: It is not a trait; it is something you do. To be creative, you need to engage in the art-making process. When you are "in the flow," you shift out of the future and into the present, making connections, generating variations and surrendering to the process. Keys to Drawing With Imagination is a course for artists in how to take something, do something to it, and make something new.
Best-selling author Bert Dodson, author of the best-selling Keys to Drawing, is back with fun techniques and mind-stretching strategies to get you drawing better and more imaginatively than you ever have before. In every section, he offers you basic guidelines that help you channel your creative energies in the right direction. Before you know it, you'll lose yourself in the process, enjoying the experience as you create something gratifying and worthwhile.
The subjects covered in this hands-on book are as vast as the imagination itself. Through 36 exercises and 13 step-by-step demonstrations, you'll explore how to:
Take your doodling from mindless to masterful
Create your own reality by crumbling, melting or breaking objects
Flip the familiar on its ear to create something utterly original
Experiment with visual paradox and metaphor
Tell vivid stories through the details in your drawings
Play with patterns to create captivating compositions
Build your drawings by borrowing ideas from different cultures
Develop a theme in your work
Along the way, Dodson offers you priceless advice on the creative process culled from his 60 years of drawing and teaching. For additional inspiration and encouragement, he even includes the work of well-known artists. So what are you waiting for? Grab this book and start drawing! You'll be amazed at what you can create.
Draw with Confidence and Creativity! Creativity occurs in action: It is not a trait; it is something you do. To be creative, you need to engage in the art-making process. When you are "in the flow," you shift out of the future and into the present, making connections, generating variations and surrendering to the process. Keys to Drawing With Imagination is a course for artists in how to take something, do something to it, and make something new.
Best-selling author Bert Dodson, author of the best-selling Keys to Drawing, is back with fun techniques and mind-stretching strategies to get you drawing better and more imaginatively than you ever have before. In every section, he offers you basic guidelines that help you channel your creative energies in the right direction. Before you know it, you'll lose yourself in the process, enjoying the experience as you create something gratifying and worthwhile.
The subjects covered in this hands-on book are as vast as the imagination itself. Through 36 exercises and 13 step-by-step demonstrations, you'll explore how to:
Take your doodling from mindless to masterful
Create your own reality by crumbling, melting or breaking objects
Flip the familiar on its ear to create something utterly original
Experiment with visual paradox and metaphor
Tell vivid stories through the details in your drawings
Play with patterns to create captivating compositions
Build your drawings by borrowing ideas from different cultures
Develop a theme in your work
Along the way, Dodson offers you priceless advice on the creative process culled from his 60 years of drawing and teaching. For additional inspiration and encouragement, he even includes the work of well-known artists. So what are you waiting for? Grab this book and start drawing! You'll be amazed at what you can create.
A painter, teacher and illustrator, Bert Dodson is the author of the best-selling North Light book, Keys to Drawing. He's illustrated more than 70 children's books and worked as an animation designer for the PBS series, Intimate Strangers.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 23.2.2007 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | Illustrations |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 216 x 279 mm |
| Gewicht | 1120 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Malerei / Plastik |
| Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Malen / Zeichnen | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-58180-757-0 / 1581807570 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-58180-757-8 / 9781581807578 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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