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Da Capo Lifelong Books; Csm edition (January 4, 2011)

You Can Draw in 30 Days: The Fun, Easy Way to Learn to Draw in One Month or Less by Mark Kistler

You Can Draw in 30 Days: The Fun, Easy Way to Learn to Draw in One Month or Less by Mark Kistler is What can I say? I thought I can't draw... Apparently I can. I bought this book on October 7 and just finished it two days ago. The book is easy to follow, no theory overload, you start drawing from day 1. And from day one I was impressed and thought "hmm maybe I can draw after all...". It starts with spheres and cubes and theory on lighting, shadows and what makes your drawing look 3d. As you go through the book it becomes more challenging and ... FUN! The author says it takes about 20 minutes for a lesson, it was 40+ for me. My advice is spend your time, don't rush it, pay attention to details as your drawing will look better at the end. I had couple of lessons that were rushed and the results were not satisfying. I've attached pictures of my drawings, clearly I'm not Picasso, but the improvement is there. The skull is not from the book, it was drawn half way through the book as a challenge for myself to see if I learned anything. The drawing of a wolf was drawn yesterday.What I discovered is that drawing takes me away from everything and I really enjoy the process. If you think you can't draw and would like to learn how I challenge you to get this book and finish it. I guarantee you will not be disappointed.

You Can Draw in 30 Days: The Fun, Easy Way to Learn to Draw in One Month or Less by Mark Kistler is I originally bought this book as something my daughter and I could do together, because she likes to draw, and has expressed interest in improving her skills. I asked her what she thought about this one when I was looking at Amazon for options, and she said "yah, sure!".And then it came...and she discovered it didn't really go over drawing cute, fluffy animals and she specifically listed that as the reason she didn't want to do any of the exercises in this book with me anymore.So I decided to go through it an effort to reclaim some hobby time, and I worked some of these during my son's clinic based therapy sessions, because they could be wrapped up in under an hour.His target audience for this book really appears to be adults, even though he does teach drawing classes for children. I found his explanations to be done in an engaging way, and well done (I did take some drawing stuff years ago), and his presentation comes across as pretty encouraging and I think he does a good job of making drawing seem accessible to any skill level.The therapy doodles I made from some of his exercises are attached in the photo, these are some of the earlier exercises. As you can see, I didn't buy fancy paper for this, I grabbed printer paper sheets and the book as I was headed out the door. I think perhaps the greatest benefit of this book is it makes sharpening this skill fun and accessible to anybody working with time crunches.

You Can Draw in 30 Days: The Fun, Easy Way to Learn to Draw in One Month or Less by Mark Kistler is I'll start out with saying that I could barely draw a straight line before this book! Truly. As an absolute adult beginner, I found this book to be outstanding. Within three lessons, I was drawing things I never, ever possibly could have imagined myself capable of. The author describes the why, the how, the when, which makes everything so much more logical. I can't rave enough about what this book has taught me. The only thing stopping me from giving it 5 stars is that the last few lessons seem rushed (I'm on lesson 26 now). The last lesson was on faces and unfortunately, the "lesson" is to trace the face on the page several times. That doesn't teach me anything. I tried drawing it by sight and I ended up with a distorted face resembling an underwater witch! So for faces, I'll use another book. That has honestly been the only draw back I've seen. The one-perspective and two-perspective lessons are tough enough but are solid in giving you the basics and by the end, you can see where the drawings form and come to life. Considering I've only been drawing for 10 days now, I'm shocked at what I'm able to do and find myself looking at objects and pictures differently now. I can see the shadowing, how the effect is shown. I pay much more attention to the composition. Despite my poor face reproduction, I highly recommend this book!

You Can Draw in 30 Days: The Fun, Easy Way to Learn to Draw in One Month or Less by Mark Kistler is I loved this book! I went from being mediocre at drawing to being quite proficient. I love that you are challenged to practice everyday and there are bonus lessons to stretch the content further. My only criticism of this book is that there isn't an item list at the beginning of the book to inform you of what you need. I was fine until the last few lessons and I needed a clipboard and rubber bands and cardboard. If I knew I needed those items from the beginning I would have been able to get more out of the lessons where they were required. I just had to do my best without them, because I didn't have them. I 100% recommend this book. If you do buy it (and you should), flip through the whole book and write down everything you need so you don't get to the end lessons and find that you're missing tools.