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| Drawing for Dummies | 
 enlarge | Author: Brenda Hoddinott
Publisher: For Dummies
Category: Book
List Price: $19.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (17 reviews)
Sales Rank: 16597
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 360
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 9 x 7.4 x 0.8
ISBN: 076455476X
Dewey Decimal Number: 741.2
EAN: 9780764554766
ASIN: 076455476X
Publication Date: March 4, 2003
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Product Description
Drawing is a skill that you can take with you anywhere--and it lasts a lifetime! Drawing For Dummies tells you how to render anything that catches your eye, including your family and friends, nature, and cityscapes. Brenda Hoddinott, a self-taught artist, shares her decades of drawing experience through step-by-step instructions online drawing, perspective, and shading, among other techniques. She also provides scores of helpful drawings that show how you can turn your vision into reality.
Brenda Hoddinott (Nova Scotia, Canada) is a visual artist, graphic designer, portraitist, forensic artist, (in conjunction with Canada's Royal Mounted Police), and professional illustrator. Ms. Hoddinott is a teacher of both adult art education and pre-school art classes. In 1998, Brenda established Hoddinott Fine Art, an art publishing company. In September 2000, Brenda launched her second Web site, "Fine Art Education," which offers free downloadable and printable drawing classes featuring Brenda's unique style of drawing. Students of all ages, levels and abilities have praised the simple step-by-step instructional approach. She is the recipient of over twenty prestigious awards from both provincial and regional art competitions.
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 Exceptional Read July 14, 2008
Drawing for Dummies is a great drawing guide. I am somewhere between beginner and intermediate but no where near advanced in my drawing skills. I found this book to be of great help in learning new things and sharpening skills that I already have.
It offers many exercises to improve and enhance your drawing style.
It is a simple read; the author doesn't make it all technical and boring.
I think this is a book that every aspiring artist should have on their shelves.
very Pleased !! June 26, 2008
Drawing for Dummies was a gift for my nephew, who likes to draw comic chacters.As you might expect, they are all out of proportion and child-like.He is a teenager now and is looking for some guidance to improve his drawing. When I first received this book, I thumbed through it and read the chapter headings. I'm sure he will profit from this book. I can't wait to see what he comes up with next.
A.R.
 Starts off good, but then...... July 26, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Well, I really wanted to learn how to draw well, so I picked this up. The first few chapters really help, but then it became was to hard for a beginning artist. Some of the stuff she wants you to draw is insane, and I just gave up on this book. If you want a good drawing book for beginners, don't look at this one.
 mixed March 6, 2007
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I like this book on some levels. On other levels...erm...there are problems. I agree that there are a lot of cartoony drawings, as well as some more realistic ones where she seemed to go through a looong period of giving people strange looking round clown type noses. The effect is off putting...not charming as I think was hoped.
She also uses what I think is a lot of inappropriate hatching..making her subjects sometimes seem kind of...hairy looking.
But these are all style issues...I really can't find fault with her technical ability. In fact, many drawings are beautiful.
As for blending, she feels it is more difficult to do well , and that's why she doesn't really approach it here. On her website she states more or less that to blend or not should be up to the individual artist and gives a reasonable tutorial on blending correctly.
Her examples are often not illustrated enough...and written instructions seem hurried, without details on how to do what she is talking about.
Also the pics in the examples are far too small...
But this is a good book as far as being approachable goes.
It gives good solid info, and does cover many subjects.
One book is rarely definitive in any endeavor one tries to learn...and often you can't cover everything in one book.
Publishers sometimes have to think about the larger market and what it will pay for.As far as we know she may have a limit on how many words and images she can use!
These books are designed to be inexpensive and general.
Given that fact, I think this particular "Dummie" book, does pretty well.
Good basic drawing book January 25, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is a nice basic drawing book. This book teaches you how to do tonal drawings by crosshatching. She doesn't smudge her drawings to save time and you can tell by the finished piece. This would be good practice for someone interested in printmaking.
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