Escher Girls: vceden asked you: I have
Escher Girls: vceden asked you: I have seen a lot of the horrible examples of How to...
vceden asked you:I have seen a lot of the horrible examples of How to Draw books on this blog, but my question is what are some good ones? As a person who can probably never advance beyond a convincing stick figure, I still would like to be able to look at a drawing and figure out how…
I once bought a how-to book, Draw Comics with Dick Giordano, solely because it had variety in the female figures. It still has problems (he even admits to some, see below) but it’s a marked improvement over Andy Smith and Chris Hart.
OH MY GOD FAT WOMEN AND SKINNY WOMEN AND OLD WOMEN
(although they’re all white in my examples, shit)
In terms of how to draw specific people, this at least has much more variety than the Andy Smith and Christopher Hart books, but it’s still based on the artist’s own idea of how certain people should look like, like how the working woman is thin but the gossip woman is bigger. It’s a definite improvement, but I think the best way to learn to draw is to not be told “this is the way to draw XYZ” but to be taught “this is how a human body should look in various positions." Stylization and other things will come. :)