How to Draw: drawing and sketching objects and environments from your imagination Paperback – December 15, 2013

This book is amazing in a lot of ways. The building blocks of technical drawings or for drawing anything are in these pages. The artist also includes hours of video content.

This book is comprehensive and dense. It really gets into the how and the why of perspective. It's what I wish all art books could be.

Normally I pic sections from books or training videos that I am interested in learning. Just thumbed through this book and every chapter has been set up in a way that to skip over anything would be a crime. This will be one book that is read cover to cover.

Top notch clear explanations of perspective concepts and practical techniques

This book is very much worth its weight in gold. For the reviewers who say this is not a beginner book, well, I started this book as a beginner. The only thing I knew about perspective was that items get smaller the further they are and that anything above the horizon line angles downward towards the vanishing point and anything under the horizon line angles upwards towards the vanishing point. Now I know how to multiply using perspective, work with planes, create grids and build objects with volume.I'm not saying that this is an easy read. This is a book that I needed to pick apart page by page. I worked every exercise and spent at least 2 hours each night studying it. If I found that I was struggling with an exercise for too long, I would move ahead to the next exercise and when done, I would go back to the previous exercise and try again.Yes, some of the example exercises could have been more helpful, such as providing us with the angles of the left and right vanishing points (because a lot of my working samples ended up very skewed). I found that by tracing the example from the book, I could then work the exercise easier. I then would practice it multiple times before I moved on. Tracing paper was a must have because I would first draft the base construction, then use tracing paper to finish it off. That way I could practice over and over without having to start from scratch. This helped the concepts to embed themselves in my brain. And yes, my brain hurt a lot when reviewing this book. :-)The key thing here is, practice, repeat and move on. If you are not a persone who has the patience to stick with something, then this book may not be for you.It took me 2 months to go through this book. But then again, I was obsessed with it and studied it thoroughly.I still am not able to draw a vehicle that looks road or air-worthy, but I have the baseline and now it will just take time and practice to continue to improve.The youtube videos were extremely helpful as well. Yes, it would have been nice to be able to cast the videos on the TV instead of being restricted to viewing them on my mobile device, but hey, we had videos which were a nice touch!This book has been one of the best art books that I have ever purchased.

I like how the book explain accurate the process of drawing a car with you own style. Sometimes it is difficult to keep up with the book, but if you follow these guidelines you could became a pro in a short time...

I put off buying this book because of reviews that said it's too advanced and/or doesn't explain certain sections properly.I bought this book anyway and I couldn't of been happier. I am breezing through this book and learning great techniques. I'm not finished with it, but I've started studying from this book and have done a flip through of every chapter. All of it is in my skill level. I have basic knowledge of 1, 2, 3 and 4 pt perspective. If I look at a cube, I can tell you what perspective it is in, an approximation of where the vanishing points are, and if the cube is higher/lower than the horizon line. I can freehand cubes and rectangular planes well. If I didn't have that prior basic knowledge down, yeah this book would give me a headache. But there's lots of great YouTube tutorials that will teach you those basics so you can then move on to this book. Highly recommend, I can't believe I put off buying this book for so long. Such great knowledge in here. 10/10 for me.