Drawing Essentials: A Guide to Drawing from Observation
"It has long been my wish that there could be one splendid text that a foundation art program could adopt and repeatedly use for each of its courses (a 'bible,' if you will). This one 'core text' would need to be both versatile and so clearly fundamental to a foundation art program that entire faculties could agree upon its use.Drawing Essentialsseems like it may very well bethe one."--Sandra Lee Starck,University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire"The inclusion of student work provides examples that are often more accessible and attainable than the work of old masters or contemporary artists alone.Drawing Essentialshas an exciting array of images from students and professionals alike, providing the introductory-level student with an important resource. . . . I am not aware of any other introductory-level textbook that has such thorough, in-depth coverage of visualization techniques."--Lari Gibbons,University of North Texas"Rockman's text is excellent in the realm of hands-on, how-to drawing texts. It is written at a level that is easily comprehensible for the audience it is addressing. It is a book that does one thing exceptionally well: it teaches beginning students the fundamentals of drawing."--Karen Bondarchuk,Western Michigan University