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Book: Still Life Sketching Techniques. "Zero Basis" and "Perfect Teaching".

For those who don't have a foundation in art, it is recommended to buy some plaster sketch books and start with plaster first. It is sold in Xinhua Bookstore. People who do not have a foundation in art must first master the foundation of art, and these plaster bodies (such as cylinders, cones, cubes, cuboids, ......It is the basic course that a person who studies art must go through, and the more you copy, the more you will improve.

The better plaster sketch books have knowledge such as perspective in the first few pages, and if you want to understand this knowledge, you will have to take a lot of detours; Every successful sketch work has a step-by-step diagram, and a book with a step-by-step diagram is easy to understand for people who have no art foundation.

Help you summarize: 1. If it is a plaster sketch book; 2. The first few pages of the book talk about perspective and the like; 3. The first few works in the book must have a step-by-step diagram.

Forum. Artists Forum.

**Academy of Fine Arts Forum.

**The book of the Academy of Fine Arts should be ok.

Buy a still life book and go home and copy it, beginners will do it.

The best book is a fiery heart.

If you want to learn systematically, you can consider signing up for a live online class, and recommend CGWANG's online class. The teacher speaks carefully, you can watch it back after the class, and there are also the same type of recorded classes that you can learn for free (give away lifelong VIP).

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Contours and lines are the general terms for sketching. Sketches have a natural rhythm. Different brushstrokes create different lines and cross-cutting relationships and rhythms, active and passive surroundings, planes, volumes, tones, and textures.

Drawing is a formal artistic creation that uses monochromatic lines to represent things in the intuitive world, as well as ideas, concepts, attitudes, feelings, fantasies, symbols, and even abstract forms. It does not place the same emphasis on totality and color as painted with color, but rather on structure and form.

Do you sketch heads, or sketch still lifes?

1. "Basic Course of Sketching" is the author Zhang Hengguo's practice summary of painting and teaching for many years, the language is concise and easy to understand, the painting steps are clear and easy to learn, it is the best introductory course for art lovers to learn sketching, and it is also a very suitable teaching material for art training and related majors in colleges and universities.

2. "American Sketch Basic Course" is a book published by Shanghai People's Fine Arts Publishing House. The first part of the American Sketch Basics Course explains the basics of drawing, and each lecture is clear and concrete, with rich illustrations. The arrangement of the lectures is also gradual and in-depth.

In the second part, the author explains the various painting mediums that are not covered in ordinary painting books, such as watercolor, gouache and acrylic.

3. "The Trick of Sketching" is an art book written by the author, Bert Dodson. Published in 2005 by the Shanghai People's Fine Arts Publishing House, it contains 55 specific tips for improving your drawing skills, 48 self-help lessons to help you master your skills, and 8 self-assessment lists to evaluate your own progress to rediscover the visual arts.