5 best-selling reference books like Complete Book of Drawing: Essential Skills for Every Artist by Barrington Barber

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Complete Book of Drawing: Essential Skills for Every Artist

By: Barrington Barber

4.05

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

What does an artist need to know about drawing? And what has to be mastered in order to achieve the…

If you liked the reference plot in Complete Book of Drawing: Essential Skills for Every Artist by Barrington Barber , here is a list of 5 books like this:

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1. Constructive Anatomy: Includes Nearly 500 Illustrations (Dover Anatomy for Artists)

By: George B. Bridgman

4.29

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Countless artists and students since the 1920s have used this and other books by George B. Bridgman… read more

Similar categories in George B. Bridgman's Constructive Anatomy: Includes Nearly 500 Illustrations (Dover Anatomy for Artists) book and Barrington Barber's Complete Book of Drawing: Essential Skills for Every Artist

  • art
  • nonfiction
  • drawing
  • reference
Cover of Color and Light: A Guide for the Realist Painter (Volume 2) (James Gurney Art) by James Gurney

2. Color and Light: A Guide for the Realist Painter (Volume 2) (James Gurney Art)

By: James Gurney

4.22

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

From New York Times best-selling author of the Dinotopia series, James Gurney, comes a carefully cr… read more

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  • art
  • nonfiction
  • drawing
  • reference
"There is not a single brand of realism. Your paintings can be true to nature but emphasize different aspects of visual truth compared to another artist. The way you paint is a record of how you see. …"

-James Gurney, Color and Light: A Guide for the Realist Painter (Volume 2) (James Gurney Art)

Cover of Figure Drawing for All It's Worth by Andrew Loomis

3. Figure Drawing for All It's Worth

By: Andrew Loomis

4.06

Format: 204 pages, Hardcover

Artist Andrew Loomis writes this book for those who have graduated from the fundamentals of drawing… read more

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  • art
  • nonfiction
  • drawing
  • reference
"Fill in the shapes with the right tones and the form takes care of itself."

-Andrew Loomis, Figure Drawing for All It's Worth

"Take from the rest of us all that you can assimilate, that can become a part of you, but never still the small voice inside your head that whispers to you, "I like it better my way."

-Andrew Loomis, Figure Drawing for All It's Worth

"I have never found a book that stressed the importance of myself as a caretaker of my ability, of staying healthy mentally and physically, or that gave me an inkling that my courage might be strained…"

-Andrew Loomis, Figure Drawing for All It's Worth

"As a student I thought there was a formula of some kind that I would get hold of somewhere, and thereby become and artist. There is a formula, but it has not been in books. It is really plain old cou…"

-Andrew Loomis, Figure Drawing for All It's Worth

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4. The Artist's Way

By: Julia Cameron

4.23

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Artist's Wayis the seminal book on the subject of creativity. An international bestseller, mill… read more

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  • art
  • nonfiction
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5. Perspective Made Easy

By: None

3.35

Format: 520 pages, Paperback

Perspective, the author tells us, is easy; yet surprisingly few artists are aware of the simple rul… read more

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  • art
  • nonfiction
  • drawing
  • reference
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6. The God Delusion

By: Richard Dawkins

3.90

Format: 374 pages, Hardcover

A preeminent scientist - and the world's most prominent atheist - asserts the irrationality of beli… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Pantheism is sexed-up atheism. Deism is watered-down theism."

-Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion

"نؤمن بنظريةالتطور لان الادلة تدعمها وسنرفضها بين ليلة وضحاها عندما تظهر ادلة تنفيها"

-Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion

"لا تلقن اطفالك بل علمهم طريقة التفكير المستقلة وكيفية التاكد من الادلة وكيف يمكنهم مخالفتك فى الرأي"

-Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion

"As J. B. S. Haldane said when asked what evidence might contradict evolution, 'Fossil rabbits in the Precambrian."

-Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion

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7. True Grit

By: Charles Portis

3.20

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

Mattie Ross, 14, from Dardanelle, Arkansas, narrates half a century later, her trip in the winter o… read more

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8. Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae

By: Steven Pressfield

4.32

Format: 318 pages, Paperback

In 480 B.C., two million Persian invaders come to the mountain pass of Thermopylae in eastern Greec… read more

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9. Drawing the Head and Hands

By: Andrew Loomis

4.06

Format: None pages,

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10. Killing Floor (Jack Reacher, #1)

By: Lee Child

2.96

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Ex-military policeman Jack Reacher is a drifter. He's just passing through Margrave, Georgia, and i… read more

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11. The Artist's Complete Guide to Figure Drawing: A Contemporary Master Reveals the Secrets of Drawing the Human Form

By: None

4.05

Format: 371 pages, Paperback

Many of us want to learn -how to draw.- But as artist Anthony Ryder explains, it's much more import… read more

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12. Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered

By: Austin Kleon

4.75

Format: 118 pages, Paperback

In his New York Timesbestseller Steal Like an Artist, Austin Kleon showed readers how to unlock the… read more

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13. Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself: How to Lose Your Mind and Create a New One

By: Joe Dispenza

4.14

Format: 329 pages, Hardcover

Nous ne sommes pas condamnés par nos gènes à vivre une certaine forme d'existence. Une nouvelle sci… read more

Similar categories in Joe Dispenza's Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself: How to Lose Your Mind and Create a New One book and Barrington Barber's Complete Book of Drawing: Essential Skills for Every Artist

  • nonfiction
"Your outer world is a reflection of your inner reality."

-Joe Dispenza, Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself: How to Lose Your Mind and Create a New One

"Eres lo que eres, eres donde estás y eres quien eres por lo que piensas acerca de ti."

-Joe Dispenza, Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself: How to Lose Your Mind and Create a New One

"We should never wait for science to give us permission to do the uncommon; if we do, then we are turning science into another religion."

-Joe Dispenza, Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself: How to Lose Your Mind and Create a New One

"Whether we’re addicted to cigarettes, chocolate, alcohol, shopping, gambling, or biting our nails, the moment we cease the habitual action, chaos rages between the body and the mind."

-Joe Dispenza, Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself: How to Lose Your Mind and Create a New One

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14. Cured: Strengthen Your Immune System and Heal Your Life

By: Jeffrey Rediger

4.51

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

When it comes to spontaneous healing, skepticism abounds. Doctors are taught that "miraculous" reco… read more

Similar categories in Jeffrey Rediger's Cured: Strengthen Your Immune System and Heal Your Life book and Barrington Barber's Complete Book of Drawing: Essential Skills for Every Artist

  • nonfiction
"Recent research is showing that we actually have three “brains"

-Jeffrey Rediger, Cured: Strengthen Your Immune System and Heal Your Life

"It’s the perception that creates the thought that creates the feeling."

-Jeffrey Rediger, Cured: Strengthen Your Immune System and Heal Your Life

"We must create a biological environment in the body and mind that sets the stage for healing."

-Jeffrey Rediger, Cured: Strengthen Your Immune System and Heal Your Life

"Illness begins in the soul, and when a healing occurs there, the physical body then “catches up"

-Jeffrey Rediger, Cured: Strengthen Your Immune System and Heal Your Life

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15. The Heartstopper Yearbook

By: Alice Oseman

4.40

Format: 154 pages, Hardcover

The full-colour Heartstopper Yearbook is packed full of exclusive content from the Heartstopper uni… read more

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16. The Candid Life of Meena Dave

By: Namrata Patel

4.12

Format: 312 pages, Kindle Edition

A woman embarks on an unexpected journey into her past in an engrossing novel about identity, famil… read more

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17. Dust Child

By: Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai

4.24

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From the internationally bestselling author of The Mountains Sing, a suspenseful and moving saga ab… read more

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"Persistence turns a bar of iron into a needle."

-Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, Dust Child

"With the fire of war burning, it needed more men as firewood."

-Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, Dust Child

"Everyone came from dust and would one day return to dust. Life is transitory, after all."

-Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, Dust Child

"For him, poetry was the language of the soul. Writers could hide their feelings behind fiction, but had to bare their soul to poetry."

-Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, Dust Child

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18. Look at That!: Discover the Joy of Seeing by Sketching

By: Bobbie Herron

4.30

Format: 74 pages, Kindle Edition

* Do you often have a busy mind? * Do you race through your overbooked day, and feel like the ful… read more

Similar categories in Bobbie Herron's Look at That!: Discover the Joy of Seeing by Sketching book and Barrington Barber's Complete Book of Drawing: Essential Skills for Every Artist

  • art
  • nonfiction
  • drawing
Cover of 30-Minute Portrait Drawing for Beginners: Easy Step-by-Step Lessons and Techniques for Drawing Faces (30-Minute Drawing for Beginners) by Rockridge Press

19. 30-Minute Portrait Drawing for Beginners: Easy Step-by-Step Lessons and Techniques for Drawing Faces (30-Minute Drawing for Beginners)

By: Rockridge Press

4.29

Format: 116 pages, Kindle Edition

Become a portrait artist with 30-minute lessons Anyone can be an artist! Dive into at-home lessons… read more

Similar categories in Rockridge Press's 30-Minute Portrait Drawing for Beginners: Easy Step-by-Step Lessons and Techniques for Drawing Faces (30-Minute Drawing for Beginners) book and Barrington Barber's Complete Book of Drawing: Essential Skills for Every Artist

  • art
Cover of Complete Book of Drawing: Essential Skills for Every Artist by Barrington Barber

20. Complete Book of Drawing: Essential Skills for Every Artist

By: Barrington Barber

4.05

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

What does an artist need to know about drawing? And what has to be mastered in order to achieve the… read more

Similar categories in Barrington Barber's Complete Book of Drawing: Essential Skills for Every Artist book and Barrington Barber's Complete Book of Drawing: Essential Skills for Every Artist

  • art
  • drawing
  • nonfiction
  • reference
  • crafts
  • textbooks
Cover of Painting with Bob Ross: Learn to paint in oil step by step! by Bob Ross Inc.

21. Painting with Bob Ross: Learn to paint in oil step by step!

By: Bob Ross Inc.

4.45

Format: 81 pages, Kindle Edition

Painting with Bob Ross—with artwork created by Bob Ross himself using his specially formulated oil … read more

Similar categories in Bob Ross Inc.'s Painting with Bob Ross: Learn to paint in oil step by step! book and Barrington Barber's Complete Book of Drawing: Essential Skills for Every Artist

  • art
  • nonfiction

11 best-selling nonfiction books like Complete Book of Drawing: Essential Skills for Every Artist by Barrington Barber

Transform Your Habits

Constructive Anatomy: Includes Nearly 500 Illustrations (Dover Anatomy for Artists)

George B. Bridgman

4.29

Transform Your Habits

Color and Light: A Guide for the Realist Painter (Volume 2) (James Gurney Art)

James Gurney

4.22

Transform Your Habits

Figure Drawing for All It's Worth

Andrew Loomis

4.06

Transform Your Habits

The Artist's Way

Julia Cameron

4.23

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13 best-selling nonfiction books like Perspective Made Easy by

Transform Your Habits

Fun with a Pencil

Andrew Loomis

4.53

Transform Your Habits

Constructive Anatomy: Includes Nearly 500 Illustrations (Dover Anatomy for Artists)

George B. Bridgman

4.29

Transform Your Habits

Color and Light: A Guide for the Realist Painter (Volume 2) (James Gurney Art)

James Gurney

4.22

Transform Your Habits

Art Forms in Nature

Ernst Haeckel , Richard P. Hartmann , Olaf Breidbach

4.12

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