Jake Spicer

You Will Be Able to Draw by the End of This Book

Amaze Your Friends with Your Portrait Skills

Draw Faces in 15 Minutes

Yes, you can draw! And Draw People in 15 Minutes will show you how. By the time you finish this book you'll have all the skills and the confidence you need to sketch people on the move or on the couch. Professional art instructor Jake Spicer takes you through every aspect of drawing from life, from sketching bodies in a busy public space to drawing a model from real life or a photograph. Carefully crafted exercises break down the drawing process into easily digestible parts, while step-by-step tutorials demonstrate how you can create a full-length portrait in just 15 minutes. With advice on everything from materials to use to how to get a person's proportions right, including how to draw hands, feet, and fabric, this is the complete course for anyone who's ever wanted to draw people.

How to Get Started in Figure Drawing

Draw People in 15 Minutes

Amaze Your Friends with Your Drawing Skills

30 carefully planned exercises helping readers learn at their own pace.

teach yourself how in 30 lessons

Draw

The face is one of the most rewarding and enjoyable subjects to draw. In this cleverly conceived series, experienced artist and teacher Jake Spicer brings the drawing lessons to you, using his innovative and easy-to-follow methods. Follow the simple lessons on the page, and practice them straight away in the book. From basic facial structures to techniques to help you master detail, Jake will accompany you on your journey, with straightforward advice and lots of tricks to help you develop your skill.

You Will be able to draw faces by the end of this book

Drawing on his many years of teaching experience, Jake Spicer's Draw in 15 Minutes series is perfect for the complete beginner or amateur draughtsman wanting to take their drawing further. With the thoughtfully constructed and beautifully illustrated tutorials in this book, you'll progress from sketching the basic outline of your furry friend, through understanding how to approach daunting subjects like fur and anatomy, to adding the details that make each breed and individual dog unique. One step at a time you'll see your drawing skills improve, and by the end of the book you'll be achieving incredible likenesses - in just 15 minutes!

Create a Pet Portrait With Only Pencil and Paper

Draw Dogs in 15 Minutes

With their luxurious fur and distinctive markings, you might think that drawing cats is an impossible challenge. Not so! Professional art tutor Jake Spicer's unique guide will have you sketching your favourite feline in next to no time. Easy-to-follow tutorials take you from learning the basic techniques every artist needs to know to capturing the unique qualities that characterise your cat-including anatomy, details and expression. With its friendly approach and beautifully illustrated lessons, this book ensures that anyone who's ever wanted to draw a cat will soon be able to.

Create a pet portrait with only pencil & paper

Draw Cats in 15 Minutes

A series of step-by-step tutorials uses a proven professional method to demonstrate how to achieve likenesses in drawn portraits, sharing related advice on what materials to use and how to find a model.

How to Get Started in Portrait Drawing

Yes, you can draw! And Draw Faces in 15 Minutes will show you how to draw people's faces. By the time you finish this book, you'll have all the skills you need to achieve a striking likeness in a drawn portrait, using a proven method from a professional life-drawing teacher. Artist and life-drawing expert Jake Spicer takes you through a series of carefully crafted tutorials, from how to put together a basic portrait sketch to developing your portraits and then taking your drawings further. From understanding and constructing the head and shaping the hair, to checking the relationships of the features and achieving a lifelike expression, every aspect of the portrait process is examined, along with advice on which materials to use and how to find a model. Inside you'll find beautifully illustrated, easy-to-follow, step-by-step chapters that make it easy for anyone to draw a face.

Jake Spicer wants you to learn how to draw. This is his complete course in drawing, suitable for complete beginners as well as experienced artists, and designed to help you fit drawing into your lifestyle. Tried-and-tested exercises, ranging from five-minute sketches to dedicated sessions of an hour or longer, cover every subject and location you could wish for, while accessibly written drawing theory helps you relate the technical concepts to your practice, helping you to hone your craft. Whatever your goals are, expert art tutor Jake Spicer gives you the inspiration and encouragement to draw more - and keep improving.

Sketch and draw anything, anywhere with this inspiring and practical handbook

How To Draw

Sketch and Draw Anything, Anywhere with This Inspiring and Practical Handbook

How to Draw

Best-selling author and art tutor Jake Spicer here gives you all the skills you need to sketch a convincing figure in just 15 minutes. With a syllabus of carefully crafted tutorials, from how to put together a basic sketch of a person, to developing your drawings and taking them further, materials and set-up, mark-making, spatial relationships and how clothes hang on a body, every aspect of the figure drawing process is examined. A special emphasis on guerilla sketching in public places - cafes, trains, buses, and anywhere that people are to be seen in action - means that this book will be especially useful for those unable to find the time to make it to a regular life drawing class.

Amaze your friends with your drawing skills

Understand the human body and transform your art with bestselling author Jake Spicer Informative and instructive, this book will equip artists of all levels with the ability to make clear perceptions of the human body and translate them onto the page. Figure Drawing begins with basic principles and builds progressively, after showing you how to develop and expand your sketching practice, how to observe and see differently, and how to create a language of marks to enable you to bring this vision to paper. As you travel through the book, you'll discover how a deeper understanding of the human body and its anatomy can transform your work. By the end you'll feel confident that everything you see, experience and understand about the body can be transformed into personal, focused and responsive figure drawings.

Figure Drawing

*** 'Figure Drawing is structured like an art school course and is every bit as rewarding.' Artists and Illustrators Informative and instructive, this comprehensive guide will give you all the tools you need to draw the human figure, from life and from a screen. While many books focus on just one aspect of figure drawing, this manual unites the skills of observation, expression and understanding in one coherent approach. Beginning with the key principles of observation, Figure Drawing will help you to build a strong foundation of skills to make well-observed, proportionally accurate drawings. As the book progresses you will explore processes and exercises that move beyond the purely observed to express the gesture, form and substance of your model. Photographic and illustrative examples throughout the book support your learning at every step. Clear step-by-step tutorials provide a practical understanding of the key materials, skills and ideas in figure drawing. A comprehensive anatomical reference section, broken down into manageable zones, deepens your knowledge of the human form. The book is a Swiss-bound paperback, designed to lie flat when open and in use.

A complete guide to drawing the human body

Yes, you can draw! And Draw Faces in 15 Minutes will show you how. By the time you finish this book, you'll have all the skills you need to achieve a striking likeness in a drawn portrait. Artist and life drawing expert Jake Spicer takes you through a series of carefully crafted tutorials, from how to put together a basic portrait sketch to developing your portraits and then taking your drawings further. From understanding and constructing the head and shaping the hair, to checking the relationships of the features and achieving a lifelike expression, every aspect of the portrait process is examined, along with advice on which materials to use and how to find a model.

Amaze your friends with your portrait skills

Yes you can draw! Following the success of the Draw in 15 Minutes series, Jake Spicer has created a straightforward drawing course that anyone can follow. Using the tried and tested methods honed in his successful drawing classes, Jake guides the reader through a programme of subjects and scenarios, all designed to give the beginner confidence and build their skills. The subjects include still lifes, cityscapes, people and pets, and each lesson is accompanied by exercises and tips for improvement. The last section of the book looks at skills in more detail, and can be referenced at any stage. Draw is carefully crafted to look and feel accessible to the beginner draftsman, and the lessons are thoughtfully balanced to complement this. Along with the friendly approach, the author provides a thorough foundation in drawing, giving the reader the perfect base to develop their skills and become a confident artist.

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