The Fundamentals of Drawing: A Complete Professional Course for Artists

Barrington Barber

Jan 2005 · Arcturus Publishing

About this ebook

This internationally bestselling guide covers essential drawing techniques, written by expert practical art author Barrington Barber.

The Fundamentals of Drawing is a practical and comprehensive drawing course from beginner to advanced levels. Opportunities for practice and improvement are offered across a wide spectrum of subjects with step-by-step examples to guide you through.

Subjects include:
• Still life
• Plants, nature and animals
• Portraiture and life drawing
• Perspective and composition

The methods used in this book are time-honored and proven, having been practiced through the centuries by art students and professional artists. Barrington Barber brings his invaluable expertise as a working artist and teacher to the task of showing you how to use them effectively to create successful drawings.

No matter what your level of expertise, you will find his clear approach encouraging and his way of teaching inspirational.

Ratings and reviews

very useful. good for a novice and for the one that wants to get to the next level. one can make good progress with the simple techniques of controlling the pencil, the discipline of drawing. understanding light, perspective, shading, it's all in progression, and that's just the beginning. I highly recommend this to anyone that wants to learn or just get better or even learn a technique that will refine their work. the concept of understanding light would certainly help anyone that likes to paint stills and needs just a little help adding a new dimension to their work.

Barrington Barber is whom is teaching me everything I need to know about art and I have never even met her, easy to follow and understand , amazing is an understatement and being able to find it here , so happy

This book is very different from the ones I've read. It really starts from the very basic fundamental. The exercises to learn to concentrate on the lines or strokes you're drawing are great. The best.

About the author

Barrington Barber is a renowned authority on teaching drawing and also a practising artist. After training as a graphic designer, he went into advertising, working for top agencies before progressing to freelance design and producing illustrations for a range of books and magazines. He taught art for many years and has written and illustrated books including Everyone Can Draw and The Art of Meditative Drawing. He lives in Wimbledon, London.