I've looked at 24 blogs and the top books in Goodreads and compiled a list of the most recommended drawing books. There's 40 books on the list, I copied the top 20 here. For drawing people, I just started Michael Hampton's book for figure drawing and found it easier to follow than Loomis.
The Vilpuu drawing manual also looks good. 3)How to render, probably the best book for value studies/learning about lighting in general. 4)Colour and light by james gurney, phenomenal book filled with his amazing art and probably the best book on color.
5)Drawing the natural way if youre looking for a detailed and exhaustive drawing plan with excercises. Whether a budding artist or a seasoned illustrator, these top drawing books will sharpen your skills and inspire your creativity, chosen for their prominence in the art community's recommendations. Drawing for the Absolute Beginner helps you build this confidence and pushes you to study the fundamentals like form, lighting, perspective, and other related properties.
In total the book covers 128 pages which seems very short. But inside you get 24 unique demos which cover a broad range of sketching, measuring, constructing and rendering. Best Drawing Books for Artists: 20 Books to Learn How to Draw Find the best drawing books to inspire your practice and help you to develop your skills, to get your art journey off to the right start.
Learning to draw can be one of the most fulfilling, rewarding and life enhancing things you can do! Based on their mentions in Reddit comments, these are the Top 100 Art books Reddit users seems to like most. Does anyone know any good books on drawing fundamentals? So I've been drawing since I was very young and in the last 2-3 years have decided to start taking art seriously and learn about it and improve. I draw every day, have completed many sketchbooks, but have realized that if I want to improve I need to practice my fundamentals.
Memory drawing perceptual training and recall by Darren r.rousar (the only book where I learned some techniques on how to draw from imagination) The ultimate bible for beginning artists: drawing facial expressions (I loved the design layout of the book and they are a ton of references to use just amazing for anyone who love manga in general). So then I went to art school, and in art school, we needed a sketchbook for every class. We would use the sketchbooks to do drawing exercises in class, and to plan class projects.
For example we would sketch out ideas for projects and show our sketches to the teacher, and then use a different medium for our final piece.