Reviewed by annieb123 on
The Draw Anything Book is a tutorial guide to drawing a multitude of fun small objects. Due out 8th Sept 2020 from Quarto on their Quarry imprint, it's 176 pages and will be available in paperback format. These tutorials appear to be collected from the one page lessons by Robert Lambry and translated from the French 1920's-30's edition.
The book contains numerous deceptively simple tutorials which cover a huge number of drawing exercises listed in the table of contents grouped roughly thematically: lines, angles, curves & lines, developing an artist's eye to break down objects and render them on a piece of paper, symmetry, axes, proportions, masses, perspective, and many more. The bulk of the book is pages and pages and pages of very simple line drawings which -anyone- can do. There are numerous numbered step-by-step tutorials which also contain a facing practice page to try out the tutorials.
One of the most brilliant aspects of this book is in showing the would be doodler how to combine and build on simple elements to produce a deceptively simple cohesive piece of art which looks very complex. I've been using doodling as an awareness/mindfulness exercise and it really does work. These are cute and good fun.
This would make a really fun rainy day activity for younger kids to, well, adult age. They're appealing and whimsical. This would also be a great resource book for anyone wanting to up their drawing-with-young-kids game.
Four stars
Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes.
Reading updates
- Started reading
- 23 August, 2020: Finished reading
- 23 August, 2020: Reviewed