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Title: Drawing Birds with Colored Pencils
ISBN: 1402752636
Author:
Kaaren Poole
Publicate Date: 2008-10-07
Publish: 2008-10-07
List Price: $14.95
Average Customer Rating: 3.5
Format: Paperback
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1: Excellent colored pencil instruction
This book is exactly what I was looking for to learn how to draw birds with colored pencils, prompting me to write my first review here on Amazon. The book starts out with all the details about the supplies recommended, and then a very thorough general information section including pencil drawing basics, a very interesting section on the drawing process and creating the sketch, and an extremely valuable section on color theory basics covering color composition and value. Also covered in this section are bird shapes and anatomy, and the drawing details including the eyes, beaks, feet and feathers. There is a wonderful selection of birds to chose from, including cardinals, robins (my favorite is the fledgling pair), goldfinch, hummingbirds, bluebirds, chickadee, and many more, with the instructions for every one spread over several full pages each, and each with full-sized illustrations in step-by-step format, layer by layer. Alongside every illustration are very thoroughly written instructions to walk you through the details every step of the way, starting with the supply list and illustrated color palette for each project. I really appreciate the written instructions because they cover every detail and are very easy to follow. There is also a chapter on combining colored pencils with other media such as watercolor, inks, and graphite. I'm extremely happy with this book, and highly recommend it to all who love birds and want to learn how to draw them with colored pencils. I also love the colored pencil drawing of the author's cat at the beginning of the book, and hope she is working on a drawing cats with colored pencils book.
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2: book review
new condition and very helpful, book includes a color theroy section that is a must read.
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3: Don't buy this if you are not a total beginner
I got this book because I love pencil drawing and I love birds. Birds are known to be difficult to draw, especially capturing their postures and gestures. Some of the drawings in this book are not good at all. In addition, the drawings don't look realistic or lifelike. They are dull and very flat, mostly because the author only uses 1 or 2 light layers of pencil. Colored pencil needs many, many layers to make the paintings glow, with careful gradations of color and blending, and these just don't have that. Overall, this book just doesn't do it for me. Maybe if you are a total beginner in drawing (birds), you might find it useful, but after reading through this book once, I have put it on my bookshelf and will most probably never touch it again.
Having said that, it is an attractive book - birds are so beautiful and delicate it is impossible to have a bad book about them!
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