Step-by-Step Studio: Drawing Concepts is is a tutorial and technique guide for drawing and rendering subjects aimed beginning to intermediate artists. Previously published in 2009, this reformat and re-release is due out 16th March 2021 from Quarry on their Walter Foster imprint. It's 144 pages and will be available in paperback format.
This
volume has a similar format to the other familiar (and beloved)
volumes in the series. The introduction covers tools, materials, some
texture techniques, and some general drawing info (very basic). The
following chapters contain the tutorials, arranged thematically: tonal studies and shading, composition, textures, and individual skill building exercises. Each of the tutorials contains step by
step line drawing from basic outline to finished drawing. I felt some of
the steps hopped over a lot of intermediate refinement, but all-in-all
they're followable and clearly illustrated.
I could see this booklet, bundled with a good graphite drawing set making a
superlative gift for a young artist up to adult age. The drawings are
detailed enough to look quite professional, but not so extremely
advanced that they would frustrate a keen beginner.
Four stars. I love that there are high quality tutorial books available from
this classic art-publishing imprint and that reprints are readily available to a new generation of students.
Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes.
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