Doug Lefler

Favorite Drawing Books

Here is a shelf on my bookcase with some (but not all) of my favorite drawing books:

Featured here are the Famous Artists drawing course, Composing Pictures by Donald Graham, All of Andrew Loomis’ published books, both volumes of Walt Stanchfield’s Drawn to Life, most of George Bridgman’s books, and very old and battered copy of The Art of Animal Drawing by Ken Hultgren, Animal Drawing by Charles Knight, three books by  Jack Hamm, Stephen Peck’s Atlas of Human Anatomy for the Artist, Anatomy A Complete Guide for Artists by Joseph Sheppard,  An Atlas of Anatomy for Artists by Fritz Schider, Dynamic Figure Drawing by Burne Hogarth, The Vilppu Drawing Manual, The Big Book of Drawing by J.M. Parronmón, Rendering in Pen and Ink by Arthur Guptill and How to Draw Trees by Henry C. Pitz.

(reposted from sevenextraordinarythings.com)

One comment

  1. Two more books on my shelf worth mentioning:
    “Color and Light”
    and “Imaginative Realism”
    both by James Gurney


Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *