The Creative Drawing Workbook: Imaginative Step-by-Step Projects

by Barrington Barber

Overview

This inspiring drawing manual will help you to build your skills and develop your creativity, whatever your level of experience. Bestselling art instruction author Barrington Barber shows how to find subjects that interest you and develop them into attractive artworks that you and others can enjoy.

You will discover how to create geometric compositions and patterns, explore the natural world as a source of inspiration, and see how everyday subjects can be transformed into decorative, original drawings. Throughout the book, you are encouraged to enjoy the process of drawing as well as the final result, with clear examples guiding you every step of the way.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781788881395
Publisher:	Arcturus Publishing
Publication date:	01/16/2018
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	43 MB
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About the Author

After training as a graphic designer, Barrington Barber went into advertising, working for top agencies before progressing to freelance design and producing illustrations for a range of books and magazines. He enjoys a successful career as a commercial illustrator and fine artist and has written and illustrated a wide range of best-selling instructional art books. Barrington lives in London, and regularly visits the Oxfordshire countryside for meditation retreats.
Born 1934, Barrington was educated at Hampton Grammar School and later Twickenham Art Schoo for which he received a National Diploma of Design. He then practiced as an illustrator (Saxon Artist) and Graphic Designer, was Art Director at Ogilvie&Mather and S.H. Bensons, and was a lecturer in Graphic Design at Ealing Art School. Other credits include freelance work, designer, illustrator, animator and painter at Augustine Studios. He was awarded a one man exhibition in 2000 at St. Oswald Studios, and also exhibited in Putney in 2003 and Cork Street in 2004. He was Head of Art at St James's Independent Schools. He now paints, draws, writes about art, and enjoys sports, walking, philosophy and meditation.