10 best-selling reference books like Drawing the Head and Figure: A How-To Handbook That Makes Drawing Easy by Jack Hamm

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Drawing the Head and Figure: A How-To Handbook That Makes Drawing Easy

By: Jack Hamm

4.03

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

A how-to handbook that makes drawing easy. Offers simplified techniques and scores of brand-new hin…

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1. 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
  • drawing
  • art design
  • nonfiction
  • design
  • how to
  • reference
  • education
"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)

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2. Drawing the Head and Figure: A How-To Handbook That Makes Drawing Easy

By: Jack Hamm

4.03

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

A how-to handbook that makes drawing easy. Offers simplified techniques and scores of brand-new hin… read more

Similar categories in Jack Hamm's Drawing the Head and Figure: A How-To Handbook That Makes Drawing Easy book and Jack Hamm's Drawing the Head and Figure: A How-To Handbook That Makes Drawing Easy

  • art
  • classics
  • drawing
  • art design
  • nonfiction
  • design
  • how to
  • crafts
  • reference
  • education
Cover of Diane Arbus: Monograph by Diane Arbus, Doon Arbus, None, Marvin Israel

3. Diane Arbus: Monograph

By: Diane Arbus , Doon Arbus , None , Marvin Israel

4.04

Format: 182 pages, Paperback

New technology has made possible this lustrous new printing from all new film. These landmark image… read more

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  • art
  • art design
  • nonfiction
"what is ceremonious and curious and commonplace will be legendary."

-Diane Arbus, Diane Arbus: Monograph

"The birthday party was me and her, a whore friend of hers and her pimp, and the cake."

-Diane Arbus, Diane Arbus: Monograph

"I used to have a theory about photographing. It was a sense of getting in between two actions, or in between acton and repose."

-Diane Arbus, Diane Arbus: Monograph

"She lives always dressed as a woman and she whores as a woman. I would never think she was a man. I can't really see the man in her. Most of the time I absolutely know but she has none of the qualiti…"

-Diane Arbus, Diane Arbus: Monograph

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

4. 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
  • classics
  • drawing
  • art design
  • nonfiction
  • design
  • how to
  • reference
  • education
"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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5. The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain

By: Betty Edwards

3.87

Format: 291 pages, Paperback

When Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain was first published in 1979, it hit the New York Times … read more

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  • art
  • drawing
  • art design
  • nonfiction
  • design
  • how to
  • reference
  • education
"Over the last forty years, many educators, decision-makers, and even some parents have come to regard the arts as peripheral, and let’s face it, frivolous—especially the visual arts, with their conno…"

-Betty Edwards, The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain

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6. Drawing Dynamic Hands

By: Burne Hogarth

3.82

Format: 224 pages,

The most comprehensive book ever published on drawing hands, it uses a revolutionary system for vis… read more

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  • art
  • drawing
  • art design
  • nonfiction
  • design
  • how to
  • reference
Cover of The Natural Way to Draw by Kimon Nicolaides, None

7. The Natural Way to Draw

By: Kimon Nicolaides , None

4.00

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

Great for the beginner and the expert, this book offers readers exercises to improve their work. read more

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  • art
  • drawing
  • art design
  • nonfiction
  • design
  • reference
  • education
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8. The Lost Painting

By: Jonathan Harr

4.09

Format: None pages, Paperback

An Italian village on a hilltop near the Adriatic coast, a decaying palazzo facing the sea, and in … read more

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  • art
  • nonfiction
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9. How to Be an Explorer of the World: Portable Life Museum

By: Keri Smith

3.76

Format: None pages, Paperback

From the author of Wreck This Journal, an interactive guide for exploring and documenting the art a… read more

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  • art
  • nonfiction
  • reference
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10. Zen of Seeing: Seeing/Drawing as Meditation

By: Frederick Franck

3.26

Format: 212 pages, Paperback

A Dutch artist offers his concept of seeing and drawing as a discipline by which the world may be r… read more

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  • art
  • nonfiction
  • drawing
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11. Keys to Drawing

By: Bert Dodson

3.61

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Anyone who can hold a pencil can learn to draw. In this book, Bert Dodsonshares his complete drawin… read more

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  • art
  • drawing
  • nonfiction
  • design
  • how to
  • crafts
  • reference
Cover of Andy Goldsworthy: A Collaboration with Nature by Andy Goldsworthy

12. Andy Goldsworthy: A Collaboration with Nature

By: Andy Goldsworthy

4.04

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Illustrates outdoor sculptures created with a range of natural materials, including snow, ice, leav… read more

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  • art
  • art design
  • nonfiction
  • design
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13. History of Beauty

By: Umberto Eco , Alastair McEwen , None

4.33

Format: 481 pages, Hardcover

Now in paperback, Umberto Eco's groundbreaking and much-acclaimed first illustrated book has been a… read more

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  • art
  • nonfiction
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14. The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life

By: Twyla Tharp

2.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

Creativity is not a gift from the gods, says Twyla Tharp, bestowed by some divine and mystical spar… read more

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  • art
  • nonfiction
  • design
Cover of Leonardo's Notebooks by Leonardo da Vinci, H. Anna Suh

15. Leonardo's Notebooks

By: Leonardo da Vinci , H. Anna Suh

4.31

Format: None pages, Hardcover

An all-new, jewel-like, reader-friendly format gives new life to this relaunch of an international … read more

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  • art
  • classics
  • nonfiction
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16. Anatomy for the Artist

By: Sarah Simblet

3.77

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

Specially taken photographs show the construction of the human body while underlying anatomical str… read more

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  • art
  • drawing
  • art design
  • nonfiction
  • design
  • reference
Cover of Anatomy for the Artist by Jenő Barcsay

17. Anatomy for the Artist

By: Jenő Barcsay

3.77

Format: 32 pages, Spiral-bound

It's the classic in its field--a reference work of unparalleled importance for all professionals an… read more

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  • art
  • drawing
  • art design
  • nonfiction
  • design
  • reference
  • education
Cover of Seven Days in the Art World by Sarah Thornton

18. Seven Days in the Art World

By: Sarah Thornton

3.45

Format: None pages, Paperback

Named one of the best art books of 2008 by The New York Timesand The Sunday Times[London]: "An inde… read more

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  • art
  • art design
  • nonfiction

19. The Last Nude

By: Ellis Avery

3.79

Format: 704 pages, Hardcover

A stunning story of love, sexual obsession, treachery, and tragedy, about an artist and her most fa… read more

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20. Drawing the Head and Hands

By: Andrew Loomis

4.06

Format: None pages,

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21. 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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22. The Story of Art

By: E.H. Gombrich

3.29

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Renowned not only as the best concise introduction to art history, but also as a classic of art his… read more

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23. An Illustrated Life: Drawing Inspiration From The Private Sketchbooks Of Artists, Illustrators And Designers

By: Danny Gregory

3.77

Format: None pages, Paperback

Find Insight and Inspiration for Your Creative Life An artist's journal is packed with sketches and… read more

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24. The Complete Paintings and Drawings

By: Leonardo da Vinci , Frank Zöllner , None

3.20

Format: None pages, Hardcover

TASCHEN's 25th anniversary - Special edition! Special bestseller price Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519… read more

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25. Ignore Everybody: and 39 Other Keys to Creativity

By: Hugh MacLeod

3.82

Format: 384 pages,

When Hugh MacLeod was a struggling young copywriter, living in a YMCA, he started to doodle on the … read more

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26. The Art Spirit: Notes, Articles, Fragments of Letters and Talks to Students, Bearing on the Concept and Technique of Picture Making, the Study of Art

By: Robert Henri , None , None

1.75

Format: 134 pages,

In this book are the essential beliefs and theories of a great teacher and American artist, Robert … read more

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27. The Chronicles of Harris Burdick: 14 Amazing Authors Tell the Tales

By: Stephen King , M.T. Anderson , Lemony Snicket , Kate DiCamillo , Louis Sachar , Sherman Alexie , Jon Scieszka , Lois Lowry , Jules Feiffer , Gregory Maguire , Linda Sue Park , Tabitha King , Cory Doctorow , Walter Dean Myers , Chris Van Allsburg

3.00

Format: 18 pages, Hardcover

An inspired collection of short stories by an all-star cast of best-selling storytellers based on t… read more

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28. The Creative License: Giving Yourself Permission to Be The Artist You Truly Are

By: Danny Gregory

2.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

The author of "Everyday Matters: A New York Diary" teaches readers to open their lives to creativit… read more

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29. The King's Agent

By: Donna Russo Morin

4.42

Format: None pages,

"Russo Morin skillfully blends historical fiction and fantasy in surprising ways. She draws effortl… read more

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30. Imaginative Realism: How to Paint What Doesn't Exist

By: James Gurney

4.10

Format: 322 pages, Paperback

From the award-winning artist, learn to see and shape the world in a way you never before imagined.… read more

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31. Van Gogh: The Life

By: Steven Naifeh

4.18

Format: 976 pages, Kindle Edition

Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith, who galvanized readers with their Pulitzer Prize–winning bio… read more

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  • art
  • nonfiction
"Me pregunto por qué los brillantes puntitos del cielo no nos resultan tan asequibles como los puntos negros que llenan el mapa de Francia. Cogemos un tren para ir de Tarascón a Ruán, pero para llegar…"

-Steven Naifeh, Van Gogh: The Life

19 must-read nonfiction books like Drawing the Head and Figure: A How-To Handbook That Makes Drawing Easy by Jack Hamm

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

James Gurney

4.22

Transform Your Habits

Drawing the Head and Figure: A How-To Handbook That Makes Drawing Easy

Jack Hamm

4.03

Transform Your Habits

Diane Arbus: Monograph

Diane Arbus , Doon Arbus , None , Marvin Israel

4.04

Transform Your Habits

Figure Drawing for All It's Worth

Andrew Loomis

4.06

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The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Family's Century of Art and Loss

Edmund de Waal

3.95

Transform Your Habits

Gustav Klimt: 1862-1918

Gilles Néret

4.18

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Brian Froud , Alan Lee

0.00

Ways of Seeing

John Berger

3.24

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