Expressive Figure Drawing: New Materials, Concepts, and Techniques Review

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Expressive Figure Drawing: New Materials, Concepts, and Techniques ReviewHaving already created two wonderful art-instruction DVDs on creativity and on figure art, Bill Buchman now conquers print as splendidly, with this jam-packed, beautifully designed book from highly respected art-book publisher Watson-Guptill.
The great thing about Bill Buchman's art instruction is how thoroughly he blends what art instruction traditionally separates: he innovatively uses technique to open up your creativity, so the soul and expressiveness of your figure art can bloom, even as you learn the foundational concepts and principles.
Mr Buchman's openminded, lighthearted artistic style is about fluidity and flow, free-spirited boldness blended with joy and fun, the pure poetic *art* of a picture appearing from the simple essence of revealing form from what you see. With an almost-zen-oriental philosophy that focuses on the process not the result, Mr Buchman shows you how to truly observe what you see and how to use gesture, mass, line, structure, shape, volume, and color, as well as speed, tempo, and rythym, to keep your art loose and free all the time, to let the line, the ink, the paint, have a life of its own. "To draw is to risk," Mr Buchman reassures us -- and there is really nothing to fear.
The only drawback to Expressive Figure Drawing being in book form is that I found myself missing Mr Buchman's pleasant teaching voice. On his DVD, Mr Buchman is a friendly, pleasant, encouraging teacher, rather gentle and affirming in his approach. Yet, like a Buchman DVD, this book feels bounteously full: it is positively *loaded* with information and insight. Mr Buchman explains things clearly and thoroughly. There is one art technique and exercise after another, and Mr Buchman reveals his methods for developing proficiency with gouache, charcoal, conte crayons, rollerball and gel pens, ink wash, sumi brush, pastels, acrylic ink, water-soluble crayons, art-chalk chunkies, and even a reed pen.
Mr Buchman's art is not based on realism. This book will not teach you to more realistically draw the human face, the hands and feet. In fact, Mr Buchman favors the torso and persuasively argues that trying to render too much detail in face, hands, and feet can ruin a work faster than anything.
But this book *will* help you open up your art and make it more creative and fluid and wonderful and enjoyable.
I heartily recommend it, for artists of all levels.
Scott Kirkman
Founder, Figure-Drawing League
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