Drawing Techniques (Learning To See book 2) by Peter Jenny (book review)
The title, ‘Drawing Techniques’ is a bit of a misnomer because Peter Jenny’s second book in his ‘Learning To See’ is out to liberate your ability to scribble and doddle. That is until you reach chapter 12 and you start building the basic shapes of square, cube, triangle, pyramid, circle and sphere, the basis for all drawing. Peter Jenny makes it look like an easy transition as he says base it on the objects you see around you and slowly gets more elaborate.
Don’t forget, this book series is for absolute beginners but the most rewarding thing you will come away from this book is the ability to draw some simple objects and, more importantly, they will look like what they are supposed to look like. Everything after that is practice and if you have been picking up these books, you should have book 3 and already getting some practice in creating human figures.
GF Willmetts
November 2017
(pub: Princeton Architectural Press/Abrams Books, 2012. 167 page illustrated A6 small paperback. Price: £ 7.99 (UK), $12.95 (US). ISBN: 978-1-61689-054-4)
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