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50 Ways to Draw Your Beautiful, Ordinary Life
Practical Lessons in Pencil and Paper
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This book is ideal for creatively curious individuals eager to develop their drawing skills through accessible lessons and interactive elements. It caters especially to those who appreciate mindful, hands-on creative work and want to capture the beauty in everyday life.
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From the creative minds and remarkable illustrators at Flow magazine, a delightful book that teaches the art of drawing through 50 step-by-step lessons in drawing the everyday. Includes postcards and foldouts to color and tracing paper to practice drawing.
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The mindful pleasure of learning to draw, with paper goodies and creative secrets from expert illustrators.
Draw the Flow way. In this innovative approach to drawing instruction, the illustrators from Flow magazine open up their tool kits, sharing secrets and techniques to teach the creatively curious how to draw. And paper goodies bound into the book encourage artistic exploration and remind us of the mindful pleasure of doing creative work.
The lessons, 50 in all, show how to render the kinds of things we see every day: a bouquet of flowers, a beloved teacup, colourful mittens, the kitchen table, a bike, jam jars, a cat, an apple tree. Along the way, we learn about colour, materials, perspective, tools, and negative space.
Filled with paper goodies:
- Paper doll fashion sketchbook to draw your favourite outfits
- Mini daily drawing pad
- DIY postcards
- Watercolour, tracing, and coloured papers
- House interiors to unfold and decorate
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Cloth Paper Scissors magazine praises the book for its abundance of paper goodies, vibrant illustrations, helpful tips, practice pages, and straightforward lessons, noting it provides ample materials and space to foster creative confidence and learning.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781523501151
Publisher: Workman Publishing
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 17 April 2018
Country: United States
Imprint: Workman Adult
Illustration: Full-color illustrations throughout
Contributors:
- Illustrated by Illustrators from Flow
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 32.0mm
Width: 204.0mm
Height: 252.0mm
Weight: 1100g
Pages: 256
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About the Author
Irene Smit is the cofounder and creative director of Flow magazine, a popular international publication packed with paper goodies and beautiful illustrations that celebrates creativity, imperfection, and life's little pleasures. She lives outside Amsterdam.Astrid van der Hulst is the cofounder of Flow magazine, a popular international publication packed with paper goodies and beautiful illustrations that celebrates creativity, imperfection, and life's little pleasures. She lives outside Amsterdam.
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