Creative Drawing : A Practical Guide to Using Pencil, Crayon, Pastel, Ink and Watercolour

This fully illustrated user-friendly guide by best-selling artist Barrington Barber reveals the skills required to meet the demands of drawing with a range of media. It demonstrates how we can develop our artistic abilities and respond to the world around us in a creative and absorbing way. • A step-by-step approach teaches techniques in handling coloured pencil, crayon, pastel, ink and watercolour • The essential skills required to record a variety of subjects are taught, including perspective and composition • The most popular practical art genres are covered, from still life, landscape and drawing animals to the human figure and portraiture Encouraging and inspirational, Barrington Barber takes the fear out of learning while ensuring that his pupils are fully equipped to find their own style through the sheer joy of experimentation.