50 Ways to Draw Your Beautiful, Ordinary Life

Name: 50 Ways to Draw Your Beautiful, Ordinary Life
Brand: Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand
SKU: 9781523501151
Price: 49.99 NZD
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Practical Lessons in Pencil and Paper

By Astrid van der Hulst and Irene Smit

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Summary

50 Ways to Draw Your Beautiful, Ordinary Life invites you to explore the joy of drawing everyday objects with an innovative, mindful approach. Created by illustrators from Flow magazine, this book features 50 lessons that reveal techniques for capturing common scenes and items—such as flowers, teacups, mittens, and bicycles—while teaching about colour, perspective, tools, and negative space. Included are charming paper goodies like a paper doll fashion sketchbook, a mini daily drawing pad, DIY postcards, and decorative papers to enhance your artistic experience.
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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.

50 Ways to Draw Your Beautiful, Ordinary Life

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.

Description

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

Book Hero Magic summarised reviews for this book. While it's new and still learning, it may not be perfect - your feedback is welcome! HOW HAS THIS BEEN REVIEWED?

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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Arts & Culture Astrid van der Hulst Irene Smit Non-Fiction

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.