Anatomy and Perspective: The Fundamentals of Figure Drawing Charles Oliver
Publisher: Dover Publications

Find model drawing classes in your area! An attempt at listing the fundamentals. I teach a lot of subjects other than sequential art, but I really try to focus on the fundamentals, whatever subject I'm teaching. Learning how to draw is never easy. Anatomy and Perspective: The Fundamentals of Figure Drawing Charles Oliver Publisher: Dover Publications. Students want to skip ahead and gloss over most basics, and you just can't do that. I try to get them to draw with structure, rather than the contour drawing everyone does before they learn the proper way to draw. So I stress composition, anatomy and perspective. This can range for drawing a candle in your room to painting the largest building of the town. There is a lot to a Rather, you'd start with "basic anatomy", "basic perspective" et cetera and work your way up to "advanced anatomy", "advanced perspective", There is a Drawing from life. This greatly increases your sense of depth and values. I always find myself teaching basic drawing in every class. Anatomy and Perspective: The Fundamentals of Figure Drawing (Dover Art Instruction) book download. The Complete Drawing Course covers the basics of drawing based on observation. He has written other books including Complete Anatomy And Figure Drawing, The Complete Watercolour Course and The Complete Guide to Perspective. The chapters on fundamentals are rather short though and can really use more elaboration to help readers understand the effectiveness of the techniques. It takes a lot of time to practice and you need to have good guidelines and tutorials to follow.