30-Minute Drawing for Beginners: Easy Step-by-Step Lessons and Techniques for Landscapes, Still Lifes, Figures, and More

Here is where to Start, rather easy to follow and it builds appreciation for book’s in general. Teaches kid’s to follow instruction’s, Writing is easier, Reading is right behind! This is a good way to teach for Kid’s & Adult’s!

Perfect for this beginning artist.

Definitely for the “beginner-beginners”. Nice quality. The paper is thick, the writing is large. The cover is smooth and sturdy. The topics are thorough, but the detail is limited. There are two full pages detailing seven chapters, with multiple exercises in each chapter. Each exercise consists of two pages, the first page explains the exercise and gives you directions to follow. The second page gives you a sketch of the exercise. It would be nice to have space to complete the exercise in the book. Overall, this is nicely done. It is a very good option for someone brand new to drawing or sketching, just as the name of the book implies. It would also be a great gift for that person or anyone you would encourage to start a new hobby. If you’ve personally had any drawing experience or ever taken an introductory art/drawing course, this book “may possibly be” a bit too remedial for you. The book is authored by an artist and teacher who is obviously dedicated to his craft. This book is proof of this. I recommend it.

This book for beginners who draw is fantastic! The pages are thick and the information is on target and very much appreciated. If you are just starting to draw or have been.away from it for awhile, I recommend this book it is well written and explains simply but thoroughly. You won't regret buying it. I thank all who were involved in processing this book. It is well worth the money!!! Rhonda

I have yet to use the book. It has very good drawing instructions. I'm sure it will take me longer than 30 minutes, to finish a drawing.

If I could rate this like 3 1/2 stars I would because it’s not a bad book by any means, but as an artist by trade myself, I feel like it’s not as beginner friendly as it advertises, also after flipping through the book, I noticed that some of the examples and instructions are either counterintuitive or just bad. I did not buy this for myself, I bought it for my mother who wants to learn how to draw. She’s already artistically talented, but drawing is not her strong suit and I felt that giving her a book with exercises would help with her visualization skills and help her learn things like shading which she struggles with. My mother mainly struggles with muscle control and overall confidence when drawing because she hasn’t taken an art class in 30 or so years. I was looking for something that would help with fundamentals and basic techniques, so when she opened up the book to start the first exercise and she was confused because it was basically just “look at an object and draw it”, I was sort of annoyed. I had flipped through the book when it came in and I saw several good looking lessons (I hadn’t started looking through the beginning first, my mistake) and a couple that I thought were generally bad, but there’s a lot of lessons in the book and I felt that a couple bad ones can be easily corrected (I specialize in portraits and the face drawing exercise, the example in particular, was very poorly done in my opinion), so I still felt like the book was okay. I then took a closer look at the exercises in the beginning of the book with my mom and realized that the first 4 or 5 lessons are just “find a thing and draw it” exercises. There’s no instruction or tips on techniques, it’s just a lot of still life drawing which, if you ask me, is sort of starting right in the middle of learning how to draw. I thought there would’ve been a couple lessons on using shapes or composition and learning how to recreate an example image, not a whole page that just says “draw a shoe”. My mom was so upset! She was immediately overwhelmed and her excitement was almost completely gone after the first lesson because it was just too intimidating to just find a 3D object and sketch it all on her own! I would’ve imagined there would’ve been some 2D how-to’s before jumping into just drawing a 3D object by sight. Ultimately, with encouragement, she tried a couple of exercises from the book, but she just felt like she had no direction or anyway to know if she was doing well or not (I felt she was, at least with so little to work with), so she just sort of gave up after that. So I personally designed some drawing exercises on my tablet and printed them for her to help her with muscle memory and visualization. She did great with this and has since taken it upon herself to draw images like the ones from her coloring books and she has way more confidence now. I’ve told her to maybe skip ahead in the book to find something that might be interesting to her, but she feel the books instructions are not clear enough and she gets very overwhelmed, so I think I’m gonna stick to finding YouTube videos for her and drawing my own exercises for her to practice with. I’m just glad that the book wasn’t expensive, but for the price I could’ve bought her a new coloring book which she would’ve liked better.

Very well illustrated and excellent directions. I bought this as a Birthday gift for my 8 year old grandson who has a budding interest in drawing. I also bought drawing supplies; pencils colored and graphite, small sketch pads, a large sketch pad. While he has a natural talent I realized that perhaps a basic instruction book would really advance his skills rapidly . He is an excellent reader for his age with good comprehension and the ability to follow instructions.

Nice gift. Drawing book.

Exactly what I needed. Great

Very helpful. Easy to follow

Buena manera de iniciarte si te interesa aprender a dibujar!!

My grandson is interested in drawing and loves using this book! Very happy with purchase!

the book is good content wise. demos given are useful BUT the printing was faded and unreadable . I returned it .