How to Draw What You See Paperback – Illustrated, 1 September 1996

Very helpful book. Love it even though I know few things before but still very good guide and exsersises.

Veru helpful and detailed instructions to improve one's drawing skills.

Effective

Very simply explained concepts and instructions. Really good for beginners.

Must buy this book who ever want to learn drawing more than five star

This book is very useful for people interested in drawing and also for those teaching drawing.

There is no bill invoice inside the packet. Plz forward to me as quickly as possible.

Fantastic book. Rudy De Reyna is a great teacher.

I wanted a reference book and that's exactly what I got. The delivery time was excellent for the Covid times.

Nice directions, really good to follow.

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When I was a student I had several books by Rudy de Reyna and gained some unusual techniques from them that have been extremely useful over the intervening decades. However an awful lot of what he was trying to teach went completely over my head and my original books were lent out and never came back. I recently replaced one of them on a whim and enjoyed it so much that I have been gradually re accumulating all of them. On re-acquiring this one I realised how so many of Reyna's ideas have been adopted by others to become the accepted way of tackling drawing and how his demystifying of forms has become mainstream knowledge, rather than the revolutionary approach it once was. Bearing this in mind, I did enjoy the warmth and good nature of the author. My attitude is that if I come to the end of a book inspired to try out a few new techniques or having discovered the solution to a problem that has always irked me, that has been worth the price of the book to me. (Even on a quick flick through the half-remembered text of this one I have already found him addressing and solving a couple of my constant bugbears.)These days I am more interested in the third of the book that concerns painting but am quite happy to go back to the basics of drawing with De Reyna too . There is always something to learn and his explanation of perspective is one of the clearest and least confusing that I have found. For what it's worth, I still feel De Reyna's books are not suitable for complete beginners. (A beginner will need to glean what you can from it and then put it away for later. ) I feel that they were aimed at students who were already rigorously schooled in sketching and drawing and were wanting to advance to a career in illustration. However I don't see this as a big deal since no one book is going to give you everything you need.One of my favourite teaching painters is marvellous at everything except skies, another does superb skies but unconvincing figures and one who is good at nearly everything uses a colour palette that I dislike, so I have tried to learn from the areas I believe that they excel at and disregard the rest. Being a painter means being an eternal student as there will always be struggles and failures along the way which teach you a lot (and gives you plenty of scrap paper to doodle on the back of.)The materials De Reyna suggests need to be changed to more modern alternatives like multi-media paper and Bristol Board and you dont have to follow this book slavishly in method or materials. (I think I originally lost interest when it came to exercises using charcoal which I have never liked using due to fixative allergy, and it never occurred to me to use something else. ) His approach of sorting out all the problems of tone, shape, composition and perspective before you even think of using colour in a painting is one that has stayed with me though and has prevented a lot of frustration and false starts. As far as I am concerned anything that shows the work underlying a piece should be lauded and encouraged as it dispels the idea painters have had a magic wand waved over them in the cradle.I do recommend this book as a classic work of commonsensical instruction in realism that covers a lot of useful topics.

First published in 1970, this book has become a classic! A book like this will not remain in print for 46 years unless it has extreme value.As the title suggests, it teaches everything an artist needs to know to learn to draw accurately and realistically. The author's premise is that no matter what style or medium is used by the artist, it is first necessary to learn to draw realistically and accurately. He then does an excellent job of teaching the artist to do just that!He begins simply. The first lesson is how to draw a straight line freehand. Then he teaches how to draw the basic forms that all objects are based on and later shows how to utilize those forms to draw anything you can see.Perspective, light and shade, values, perspective, composition are all essential topics that are clearly taught with assigned exercises to practice on. Any subject, from landscapes to still lifes, portraits and figurative studies is taught. The best thing about this method is that all you really need to start with is a #2 pencil and a sheet of paper.All the drawings in the book are in black and white as well as the values in between. He starts with the #2 pencil but than proceeds to cover charcoal,mwatercolor washes, opaque (gouache) washes, acrylic, and ink. Thenaddition of liquid mediums is a feature that I have notmseen in other books on drawing but it makes for a very helpful transition to painting in color.Most art books seem to contain very few essential concepts or techniques and then simply use a lot of space explaining and expanding on them. In other words, most other art books have a lot of "filler". This book is different in that it covers each concept clearly and concisely so that more comcepts and techniques can be covered. A lot of concentrated teaching that the student soends time practicing. This make the book a great value! It truly covers everything needed to learn to draw what you see.This is appropriate for beginners as well as experienced artists. An outstanding art book!