Line by Line is an introductory drawing course running in weekly installments on the New York Times (see my post here). If you live near a state university, you may find their library open to residents, including borrowing privileges.
Look to your local library for everything mentioned here and more. Modern representational drawing texts concentrate on Academic teachings, which are derived from principles developed in the Renaissance and subsequent years up to the late 19th Century. This is not meant to be a comprehensive list, certainly not of drawing books, or even of drawing books and resources that answer the particular question at hand, but a few suggestions drawn (if you’ll excuse the expression) from my personal experience.Ī book I will recommend, though it is not specifically related to drawing but to art and art study in general, is Robert Henri’s The Art Spirit.Īs for drawing instruction in a classical or Renaissance method, there isn’t a great deal in the way of drawing texts from the Renaissance techniques were passed down from master to apprentice, rarely committed to writing. Though she has attempted to address this somewhat in recent editions, there are better sources for pursuing the art of drawing. I feel her book, however, is lacking the other “half” of drawing, the art of it, the finesse and artistic choices that separate “art” from “just drawing” and that separate the masters from the ordinary. I frequently recommend it as the book concentrates of the fundamental and most difficult problem adults face in learning to draw, and that is learning to see what is actually before them, and not what they think they see.
He had purchased a copy of Betty Edwards’ Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain (see my post here), and was looking for other books and resources to pursue his interest from there, hopefully with a classical or Renaissance method.Įdwards’ book is an excellent place to start for someone who has a new or rekindled interest in drawing. Tim, a Lines and Colors reader, wrote me to say that he had recently become inspired to return to the practice of drawing.
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