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| Life Drawing: How To Portray The Figure With Accuracy And Expression | 
 enlarge | Author: Robert Barrett
Publisher: North Light Books
Category: Book
List Price: $28.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 245808
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 160
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 10.9 x 8.3 x 0.9
ISBN: 1581809794
Dewey Decimal Number: 743.4
EAN: 9781581809794
ASIN: 1581809794
Publication Date: May 30, 2008
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Product Description
Drawing people is more than just accurately capturing the anatomy and details of the subject. Artists that capture the soul of the model breathe life into the artwork by expressing a mood, idea or emotion that cannot be captured by accurate rendering alone. Life Drawing will give the reader all the tools necessary to draw people accurately and expressively, thus setting it apart from books that teach technique only. A variety of materials (nupastel, charcoal and graphite) will be used to give the intermediate artist a range of options to choose what works best for the subject of each drawing.
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Effective and useful November 1, 2008
Robert Barrett's wonderful book is playing a large and inspiring part in the educational program I run here at my studio. It is well organized and covers so many approaches with clarity and precision that I can think of no other single book on drawing the figure that is as effective overall. Bob writes well and draws even better.
William Whitaker
British Review "Artist's and Illustrator's" October 31, 2008
The following is a book review from the British publication "Artist's and Illustrator's" - July 2008
Life Drawing
Robert Barrett
Another month, another life drawing book. Thankfully, Robert Barrett has chosen to recreate his studio classes on paper, and in doing so offers a novel spin on well-worn subject matter.
The usual sections on useful materials, proportions and anatomy are all dealt with confidently but it is when he digs up less obvious considerations that this book really shines.
The chapter on hard and soft edges is worth the cover price alone. After showing how to delineate between subject and background with ease, Barrett's demonstration portrait then emerges from a charcoal haze over seven easy steps.
The book's tagline talks of portraying figures with "accuracy and expression" and by placing the emphasis on the latter quality, "Life Drawing" has resuscitated a tired book genre.
David & Charles
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