Charles Bargue and Jean-Leon Gerome: Drawing Course

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Unfassender, sehr instruktiver Zeichenkurs. Gediegene Ausgabe. Leider - und immer häufiger in letzter Zeit - war das Buch durch unsachgemäßen Transport beschädigt.

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It is a great book for learning serious drawing. The drawing sample is very clear in the book. Good quality. The delivery package is good, too. No damage in the book when I received. I am very happy to order it online.If possible, I wish the publisher could provide a binder version of the book. By doing so, it will be a lot easier for a learner take out a sample drawing pager freely and clip it on the easel to draw. Now I have tear down all the pages and make a binder book myself.

This drawing book is superb. I have a very hard time following art instruction books as they tend to be overdone with the commentary making the instruction hard to follow.this course is different. The brevity of the instructive commentary is unique and succinct, and it is very effective. Rather than taking up much of your time reading instructions for each of the images you draw through the course, the authors give you a general set of rules to follow in every drawing at the beginning then most of the course is copying the images from the book using these guidelines. You start with very simple line drawings that increase in complexity incrementally as you push through the course.The method for beginning with simply body parts, then moving to the human head, then to the torso, then adding it all together create a solid base of knowledge in completing full realism drawings, and it is very effective at teaching you modelling. instead of attempting to show you everything at once, it builds the skills you need to complete full drawings by creating building blocks that serve as a foundation. Once that foundation is in place you will be able to draw almost anything from life. Highly recommend if you do not have the means to enter art school or if you just want to learn the best methods for realism.